American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 137
- Number 10
- October 1980
Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1157–1162The authors studied the case material for patients treated with either psychoanalysis or brief therapy to examine the basis for the various states of pathological grief after berevavement. They view these states as intensifications or unusual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1157Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1163–1172Abnormal movements associated with the prolonged use of antipsychotic drugs (tardive dyskinesia) occur in at least 10%-20% of the patients at risk; prevalence is higher among the elderly. The casue is unknown, but increased sensitivity to dopamine in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1163Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1173–1176There is a manifest and a latent content to many psychological testing refereals. Although a diagnostic problem is usually the stated reason for the referral, the unstated and more basic reason frequently has to do with problems the therapist is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1173Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1177–1182The author discusses the father-child relationship as it is influenced by divorce. Psychiatrists are often consulted by individuals considering dovorce who are concerned about its probable impact on their children. Data gathered from the treatment of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1177Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1183–1187The authors treated 18 rigorously diagnosed depressed patients with amitriptyline after baseline urine samples were collected for the measurement of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxphenylglycol (MHPG). Neither age nor severity of depression before treatment correlated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1183Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1188–1192Physical illness may first declare itself as a disturbance in thinking, mood, or behavior. Recognition of physical disorders is enhanced by informed use of the relevant procedures of physical examination. Objections to physical examination are based on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1188Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1193–1196The authors studied retrospectively 78 reports of "near-death experiences using subjects narratives and questionnaires, interviews, and medical records. Prior experiences suggestive of transcendence of death were more common among these subjects than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1193Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1197–1201The authors evaluated the development and clinical course of nightmares and the personality patterns of people with this dosorder by studying 30 adults who had a current complaint of nightmares. Nightmares usually began in childhood or adolescence and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1197Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1202–1205Some patients with tardive dyskinesia fit the cholinergic-dopaminergic imbalance theory, but some do not. In an attempt to study his heterogeneity further, the authors measured the responses of 10 patients with tardive dyskinesia to intravenous challenge ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1202Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1206–1210Advocates of the psychiatry internship believe the experience fosters professinal maturity. The authors examined the maturing process of 10 psychiatry residents during their internship year. Changes in the interns' professional identity including ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1206Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1211–1216The authors compared psychiatric symptoms, violent behaviors, and medical histories of an entire one-year sample of adolescents from the same community who were sent either to the correctional school or the only state hospital adolescent psychiatric unit ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1211Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1217–1219The authors describe a case of the catatonia syndrome associated with disulfiram therapy. Although useful in the management of chronic alcoholism, disulfiram is being increasingly associated with a wide spectrum of side effects and untoward medical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1217Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1220–1222The authors designed a double-blind hemodialysis protocol consisting of hemodialysis or sham dialysis twice weekly for 10 weeks, respectively. Four patients were carefully selected and evaluated clinically and on the Clinical Global Impression Scale. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1220Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1223–1225The authors describe three adopted girls, aged 9 and 10, who falsely alleged that their adoptive mothers dressed them in rags, made them do all the chores, and favored their stepsiblings. Underlying these false accusations of abuse was a history that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1223Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1226–1228In 1978 a questionnaire on the functioning of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology was mailed to a sample of APA members. The authors present the significant differences in responses between men and women psychiatrists. A higher percentage of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1226Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1229–1231In this questionnaire survey the authors measured the outcome among 20 students randomly assigned to muscle relaxation training and 19 assigned to transcendental mediatation at one year (the number of respondents in each group was 13 and 16, respectively) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1229Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1232–1234The authors examined the effect of neuroleptic drugs on desipramine steady-state plasma concentration in 30 patients who received similar milligram per kilogram doses of desipramine. Fifteen of these patients also received a neuroloeptic drug and had ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1232Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1234–1237The authors selected 11 chronic hemodialysis patients for a brief group psychotherapy program, the primary objective of which was to produce congnitive and affective changes pertaining to the illness. Each of the 10 therapy sessions lasted 1/2 hours and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1234Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1238–1240Psychiatrists are called on to evaluate the credibility (and incredibility) of complaining witnesses in criminal proceedings despite a longstanding controversy about their ability to accurately make such determinations. The author discusses the history of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1238Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1241–1242Newly admitted schizophrenic patients (N=48) were given a test does of 2.2 mg/kg of chlorpromazine hydrochloride by mouth. Chlorpromazine was measured in plasma and saliva at 1, 2, 3 (saliva only), 4, 6, 8, 12 (saliva only), and 24 hours by gas ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1241Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1243–1246The authors surveyed 22 psychiatric educators to determine their views of the basic knowledge and skills that should be required for all psychiatric residents. A comprehensive document of educational objectives facilitated practical differentiation of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1243Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1247–1249The authors received 228 response to a questionnaire on psychic phenomena mailed to professors and residents in psychiatry, other medical faculty, and deans of medical schools. Fifty-eight percent of the respondents believed that an understanding of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.10.1247Publication date: 01 October 1980
Pages1250–1253In an attempt to characterize consultees' representations of consultants' psychiatric dagnoses, the authors reviewd the medical records from 190 psychiatric consultations in a general hopsital. Using specific outcome criteria, they rated 50% of ...
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Page1282In "Psychological Manifestations of Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis" by Thomas B. Mackenzie, M.D., and Michael K. Popkin, M.D., in the August 1980 issue, the last sentence of the first paragraph on page 972 should be, "It is generally considered to ...
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