American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 137
- Number 4
- April 1980
Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages409–416The author briefly reviews and tentatively categorizes a number of psychotherapeutic techniques that have emerged in recent decades, particularly those which fall under the rubic of the human potential movement. He asks and endeavors to answer four major ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.409Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages417–422In clinical practice, great emphasis is placed on the patient's being responsible, yet the conceptual bases of this therapeutic posture are obscure. The author examines the conceptual foundations of responsibility by focusing on the subjective "I". ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.417Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages423–427The authors review the literature on and systematize the factors influencing medical students' choice of psychiatry as a specialty. The results indicate that students who are single, from large metropolitan areas, uninterested in religion, politically ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.423Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages428–431Because of the recent decline in the number of U.S. medical graduates choosing to specialize in psychiatry, it is important to reexamine the process of how a student chooses a psychiatric career. The author explores the influence of medical school ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.428Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages432–438The authors followed up 17 biologic male transsexuals who had received sex-reassignment surgery an average of 8.2 years previously. Information was collected from the transsexuals, their partners, and family members when appropriate; MMPI scores were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.432Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages439–444The authors surveyed 997 elderly people living in the community and found that the rate of significant dysphoric symptomatology was 14.7%. Forty-five (4.5%) of these individuals suffered from dysphoric symptoms only, and 37 (3.7%) had symptoms of a major ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.439Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages445–449The authors examined depressive symptoms and behavior disorders in 102 systematically interviewed children aged 7 to 17 years to elucidate the category of masked depression. They found that it was possible to diagnose these children using adult research ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.445Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages450–455The authors studied 146 breast cancer patients representing three different treatment regimens by means of a structured interview, open- ended questions, and a modified Psychiatric Status Schedule. The major findings indicated that physical disability did ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.450Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages456–459In their daily work psychotherapists rely on theoretical underpinnings derived from psychoanalysis. Many have come to rely on exaggerations of the notion of abreaction or catharsis, the so-called "expressing of feelings." This notion, implicit in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.456Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages460–464After his death in 1950 Adolf Meyer, the "Dean of American Psychiatry," was forgotten by most in the field. As a result, his role in determining the course of psychiatry's current identity crisis remains largely unexplored. Meyer was responsible for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.460Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages467–469Twenty-five agoraphobic women were compared with 23 controls for the presence of mitral valve prolapse syndrome (MVP). All subjects underwent cardiac examination, electrocardiography, phonocardiography, and echocardiography. Eleven of the agoraphobic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.467Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages470–472Eighty morbidly obese patients who had had gastric bypass operations were interviewed for psychiatric diagnoses using DSM-III criteria. The lifetime prevalence of Axis I clinical psychiatric diagnoses was 47.5%, with depressive disorders occurring in 28.7%...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.470Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages472–476In the United States violent deaths (suicide, homicide, and accidents) are the leading cause of deaths in people aged 1-39 and the third leading cause of death for people of all ages. Violent death rates have tended to decrease since 1900. Among 15-24-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.472Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages476–480The authors used a questionnaire survey conducted by mail in 1975 to assess psychiatrists' perceptions of the applicability of two jurisdictions' statutes for emergency involuntary hospitalization and the desirability of such hospitalization in four case ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.137.4.476Publication date: 01 April 1980
Pages480–482Regulators have a major opportunity to enhance the community care of former state hospital patients through their power to authorize additional general hospital psychiatric beds. The authors propose a series of clinical criteria for such regulators based ...
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