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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 138
  • Number 10
  • October 1981

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1279–1287

The author presents a broad view of the principal forces at work in twentieth-century psychiatry. He describes the approach of the various psychiatries--psychoanalytic, biological, behaviorist, social, interpersonal, and existential--to the diagnostic ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1279

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1288–1297

The author states that most psychiatrists should be able easily to recognize tardive dyskinesia. However, this disorder is a subset of a large variety of abnormal involuntary movements, some of which may resemble tardive dyskinesia. Others have serious ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1288

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1298–1301

A questionnaire was sent to 206 internists and surgeons asking them to estimate the following: the frequency of psychiatric disorders and behavioral problems among their patients, the type and frequency of psychiatric medication they prescribed, the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1298

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1302–1307

There is considerable diversity of opinion as to the nature of the response of depressed patients to amphetamine infusion. The authors report on the clinical response of 18 endogenously depressed patients to double-blind, intravenous administration of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1302

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1307–1310

The authors studied 44 acutely decompensated, hospitalized schizophrenic patients who were placed on a double-blind basis for 10 days in three treatment groups: patients given high, moderate, and standard doses of haloperidol. To assess changes in the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1307

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1311–1316

Many patients with temporal lobe epilepsy also experience dissociative episodes. Three patients with multiple personality exhibited alterations in speech pattern, personality, handedness, and sense of personal identity and claimed amnesia for the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1311

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1319–1330

Complex processes of sex bias and sex-role stereotyping continue to detract from the quality of mental health services to both sexes, but particularly to women because of their disadvantaged status. Understanding how such processes can simultaneously ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1319

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1330–1335

Recent publications have noted a rate of suicide for women physicians considerably higher than that for women in the general population. The authors comment on some of the methodologic problems involved in this research and discuss the interaction between ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1330

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1335–1342

The author reports on 16 patient interviews involving a gynecologist who conducted internal examinations in a sexually abusive manner. The unusual features of the examination included length of time, misuse of the physician's hands, absence of a nurse, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1335

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1342–1345

The authors distributed a sex-role ideology questionnaire to practicing psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, university students, and groups of traditional and feminist women. Psychiatrists and psychiatric residents as a group were significantly more ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1342

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1346–1351

The authors studied first-year medical students to assess sex differences in psychological functioning. No initial sex differences in adjustment were found on any self-report measures. By mid-year, however, women students had developed more psychiatric ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1346

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1352–1356

The authors discuss the reasons for decisions to remain single or to marry, particularly for women today. They consider aspects of the life experience of single women and provide a developmental context for women's choices. The authors discuss the impact ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1352

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1357–1361

The progress of women in academic psychiatry depends in part on the social and institutionalized administrative patterns expressed through faculty attitudes, hiring practices, and other conditions of the field as they are currently structured. As the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1357

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1362–1365

The authors examined the charts of 22 outpatients who had received intramuscular fluphenazine decanoate and oral fluphenazine hydrochloride to assess the incidence of tardive dyskinesia. The severity of tardive dyskinesia was assessed with the Abnormal ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1362

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1366–1369

The introduction of substantive geropsychiatry training into the medical school curriculum and residency programs in medicine and family practice involves overcoming such obstacles as competition among specialties for curriculum time, "ageism" (negative ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1366

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1369–1371

A method of dosing lithium based on a 24-hour serum lithium level obtained after a single 600-mg oral dose of lithium carbonate has been reported to provide a steady-state lithium concentration of 0.6--1.2 mEq/liter. Since this regimen is widely used in ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1369

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Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1398-a–1398

In the table of contents of the August 1981 issue, the name of Joel Yager, the second author of "Assessment of Psychotherapy skills: The Problem of Interrater Agreement" (p. 1069), was misspelled. The staff regrets these errors.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1398-a

Publication date: 01 October 1981

Pages1398-b–1398

On page 1064 of "Critique of the Danish-American Studies of the Adopted-Away Offspring of Schizophrenic Parents" by Theodore Lidz, M.D., Sidney Blatt, Ph.D., and Barry Cook, Ph.D., in the August 1981 issue, the last sentence of the second paragraph in the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.10.1398-b

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