American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 138
- Number 1
- January 1981
Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages1–13The authors suggest that the common characteristics of various descriptions of major depressive illness--endogenous, endogenomorphic, psychotic, and melancholic--are an autonomous course, a need for biological treatment, and a presumed alteration in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.1Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages14–19Twenty-three children involved in a school-bus kidnapping were studied from 5 to 13 months following the event. Each child suffered posttraumatic emotional sequelae. The author found that the children suffered from initial misperceptions, early fears of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.14Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages20–24In a double-blind, controlled study 158 outpatients with unipolar depression were treated for six weeks with amoxapine, imipramine, or placebo to assess the antidepressant effects of the new dibenzooxazepine compound, amoxapine. Forty-five amoxapine, 43 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.20Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages25–29The authors are developing the Behavior Observation Scale to objectively differentiate autistic, normal, and mentally retarded children aged 30--60 months. They describe operational definitions and procedures and report data on the frequency of selected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.25Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages30–34In this study of 18 female depressed patients and 18 age- and sex- matched control subjects, the authors examined the relationship between nonverbal behavior and treatment outcome with amitriptyline. A behavioral analysis indicated that amitriptyline ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.30Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages35–40As part of the Community Mental Health Epidemiology Program 489 18--24- year-olds in Washington County, Md., and Kansas City, Mo., were studied to learn which factors are related to thoughts of suicide in young adults. Depressive symptomatology, poor ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.35Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages41–45The authors studied the incidence of parental loss among 163 gender- disordered patients and an equal number of psychiatric control patients. An unusually high number of gender-disordered patients had lost their fathers, particularly during adolescence ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.41Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages46–50The author describes the usefulness of conceptualizing patients with borderline and narcissistic personality disorders along a continuum, using three main developmental lines. A clinical example demonstrates progression, during psychotherapy, from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.46Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages51–55To determine the personality and attitudinal characteristics of emotionally disturbed psychiatric residents and their short-term adjustment the authors conducted a series of psychological tests with physicians entering two psychiatric residency programs. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.51Article
Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages64–69The author reviews the process of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy in private practice and in the clinic setting. He describes the patients who are most likely to be referred for such therapy, most of whom have "failed" in other types of therapy. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.64Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages69–73The authors describes the advantages of conjoint analytic treatment, which occurs when two or more analysts treat a patient in different settings: one provides the one-to-one relationship, and the other leads the group experience. The goal of this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.69Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages74–80The author reviews the history of the literature on inpatient group psychotherapy. Key observations of early workers--the central role of the group leader, the experiential benefits of the group, and the relationship to the milieu--have not resulted in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.74Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages81–83The authors describe a longitudinal, placebo-controlled study of the response to drug treatment of a 62-year-old schizoaffective patient hospitalized for 40 years. While neither lithium nor a neuroleptic drug alone was effective, both drugs administered ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.81Article
Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages84–87Suicidal bereavement involves more than the personalized reaction to the death of another. The bereaved is also left with the cognitive and emotional dilemma of death as a chosen option for existence. This existential contradiction creates enduring ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.84Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages87–89Seven patients who had been maintained on tricyclic antidepressants developed signs of hypomania or mania shortly (two-seven days) after drug withdrawal. Three patients responded promptly to treatment with neuroleptics. One patient receiving lithium and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.87Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages90–92The authors present two cases in which Gilles de la Tourette syndrome was present in at least two family members: the first case is a mother and her son and the second an uncle and his nephew. the increasing severity of the syndrome from one generation to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.90Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages93–94The increasingly widespread use of lithium has benefited many, but the therapeutic potential of the drug will not be realized if it is used in a way that is haphazard or inattentive or adheres too rigidly to written guidelines. The authors present ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.93Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages95–98Although neurotic conflicts relating to achievement and success are common among patients in psychoanalysis, the psychoanalytic literature is remarkably limited and tends to portray conflict relating to success only in terms of oedipal conflict. Through ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.95Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages98–101Community support programs are becoming a major priority in community mental health centers throughout the country. The authors present a training design that integrates principles and skills associated with this model into a 4-year residency training ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.98Publication date: 01 January 1981
Pages102–105The authors studied 1,106 consecutive patients who called for an initial outpatient appointment at a medical center department of psychiatry during a one-year period. The 759 (68.6%) patients who kept their initial scheduled appointment differed from the ...
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Page127In the October 1980 issue, in "Neuroendocrine Dysfunction and Blood Levels of Tricyclic Antidepressants" by Juan Ramon de la Fuente, M.D., and Alan H. Rosenbaum, M.D., the second sentence of the sixth paragraph on page 1260 should be, ". . . his plasma ...
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