American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 136
- Number 9
- September 1979
Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1121–1127The author proposes a model commitment law that balances the sometimes conflicting points of view among patients, doctors, and lawyers about this subject. Paternalism is affirmed, while safeguards are provided. It is argued that absent patient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1121The apprenticeship of Philippe Pinel: a new document, "observations of Citizen Pussin on the insane"
Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1128–1134Philippe Pinel is usually pictured in histories of psychiatry and of medicine as the man who first liberated the insane from their chains. The document presented here, discovered in 1978 in the Archives nationales in Paris, reveals the crucial role of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1128Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1135–1138The author examines the philosophical foundations of French and American nosology with a view toward understanding the relatively minor influence of French psychiatry in America. Despite the excellence of its descriptive psychiatry, much of French ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1135Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1139–1143The author discusses the role of an occupation in the psychic economy of women in midlife and the diagnostic and therapeutic function of attention to work-related issues. Clinical examples are grouped according to commonly encountered patterns as these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1139Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1144–1147Violent deaths (suicide, homicide, and accidents) are the leading cause of death in people aged 1--39 in the United States. All three types of violent death may represent suicidal tendencies. Among early (10--14 years), middle (15--19), and late (20--24) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1144Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1148–1151Patients with bipolar and unipolar affective illness (N = 76) were compared with 48 control subjects on a psychophysical pain rating procedure using both threshold and signal detection analysis. Affectively ill patients were more analgesic than controls, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1148Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1152–1156The authors conducted a systematic psychodynamic investigation directed explicitly toward the bereavement reactions of people who have lost a parent during their adult life. They conducted a single in-depth interview of 14 people with a mean age of 32.4 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1152Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1157–1161Psychiatric problems are rampant among the aged, yet the psychiatric profession has not developed sufficient resources for training the necessary number of practitioners able and willing to treat elderly psychiatric patients. The management of psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1157Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1162–1167Heroin addiction may be considered an epidemic disease that is communicated by people who are addicted to the drug. It has been suggested that the most recent epidemic in the United States had its peak incidence in 1969. The age of heroin addicts entering ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1162Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1168–1172The author reviews studies of the development and scientific exploitation of two true-breeding strains of pointer dogs, one of which is basically normal and one of which is nervous, particularly around people. Basic studies, which generally contrast the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1168Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1177–1180Assays of drug levels in blood and of other biochemical characteristics of psychiatric patients are being proposed for clinical application, although their utility in practice remains uncertain. Exceptions are the assay of blood levels of anticonvulsants ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1177Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1181–1183The author describes a 10-week study designed to gain some understanding of how to treat patients who have suffered for a long time with headaches that have not been alleviated by many attempts at treatment. Fourteen patients whose chief complaint was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1181Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1184–1187In this double-blind study, 56 adult psychoneurotic outpatients with a primary diagnosis of anxiety neurosis were randomly assigned to receive buspirone (N = 18), diazepam (N = 20), or placebo (N = 18) over a four- week period. A battery of tests ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1184Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1187–1189The authors tested the hypothesis that people addicted to opiates manifest more psychopathology in areas that have been identified as predictors for high risk of suicidal behavior than do normal control subjects. They gave 278 patients in a methadone ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1187Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1190–1193The fact that alcoholism programs are biased in terms of the kind of patients admitted to treatment is well recognized. The authors examined the possible bias of preadmission screening procedures in an alcoholism treatment program and investigated some of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1190Publication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1194–1196This study compares the psychiatric, neurological, and psychoeducational status of sexually assaultive male juveniles and other violent juveniles. The authors found that juvenile sexual assaulters suffered from neuropsychiatric problems similar to those ...
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Pages1232-b–1232In "Informed Consent for Neuroleptic Therapy" by Joseph DeVeaugh-Geiss, M.D., in the July 1979 issue, there were three errors. In the second column on page 960, the last line of the first full paragraph should read, "... ideally a neuropsychiatrist with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.136.9.1232-bPublication date: 01 September 1979
Pages1232-c–1232There was also an error in the August 1979 issue in "Oculomotor Signs in a Psychiatric Population: A Preliminary Report" by Craig N. Karson, M.D. Dr. Karson's current position title and affiliation are Clinical Associate, Laboratory of Clinical ...
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