American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 138
- Number 7
- July 1981
Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages879–887The role of the general hospital within the psychiatric service delivery network has undergone profound changes in recent years. Current issues in general hospital psychiatry revolve around questions concerning boundaries, target populations, appropriate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.879Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages888–895American psychiatry has reached its bicentennial. Holistic-medical foundations have been its hallmark, inspiration, and source of preeminence. Incorporated by psychobiology, the American school, they enabled the growth of psychiatry as a medical specialty ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.888Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages896–903The authors describe the content, administration, reliability, construct validity, and training requirements for a semistructured diagnostic interview for borderline patients. The interview is composed of operationally defined and scored variables that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.896Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages904–912The authors studied 104 dreams obtained from 14 subjects and quantified the formal aspects of the subjects' dream experiences by the following categories: movement in dreams, sensation, affect, dream bizarreness, and dream lucidity. Their results are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.904Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages913–918In a placebo-controlled, double-blind crossover study of 14 male chronic schizophrenic patients, high doses of the opiate antagonist naloxone were given intravenously. Hallucinations measured on a verbal- report scale were significantly decreased after ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.913Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages919–924The author systematically assessed the backgrounds, training and career experiences, and perceptions of career-marriage interactions of women and men psychiatrists in a large mid-Atlantic state. Although there were many similarities, the women differed on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.919Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages925–929Religious cultism defies easy generalizations. Motivating forces behind cult membership range from brainwashing-like processes to fulfillment of severe predisposing psychopathological needs; they operate to varying degrees in different individuals. Thus, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.925Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages930–935A growing number of community support services are being designed for the chronically mentally ill with the goal of improving this population's adjustment to noninstitutional settings. Program planners anticipate that a comprehensive array of psychiatry ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.930Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages936–940In 1957 California began placing responsibility for public mental health services on county programs still vary widely in emphasis and size. The authors explored determinants of counties' unequal program developments using per capita expenditures as the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.936Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages941–947The authors illustrate the use of multivariate statistics as a tool for exploring diagnostic factors in schizophrenia in two areas: the derivation and replication of the 12-point flexible diagnostic system and the definition of schizophrenic subtypes. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.941Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages948–953The authors believe that sharp distinctions of schizophrenia based on cross-sectional signs and symptoms provide the basis for precise and reliable diagnoses, but they do not believe that diagnoses derived from a narrow descriptive base are generously ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.948Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages954–958Kraepelin's description of "dementia praecox" was a synthesizing influence in a field that had for too long been fragmented in its thinking about severe psychiatric disorders. Now, once again, the field is attempting to deal with some of the complexities ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.954Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages959–961The author compared 94 depressed patients with 94 nondepressed patients who had a personality disorder in a matched control study. A family history of depression, parental loss before 17 years, and unemployment were found to be risk factors associated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.959Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages962–964The authors studied the effect of an ACTH 4-9 analogue (the shortest behaviorally active fragment of the ACTH neuropeptide) on mood in normal aging volunteers. These mood changes, described as a sense of well-being, energy, and drive, are consistent with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.962Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages964–966The reinstitution of the "internship" requirement by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology resulted in the development of a 4-year residence by most residency programs. The authors distributed a questionnaire to more than 200 psychiatry residency ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.964Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages967–970Forty women who had had incestuous relationships with their fathers during childhood were compared with 20 women whose fathers had been seductive but not overtly incestuous. More of the women who had experienced overt incest reported that their fathers ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.967Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages970–972A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 2-dimethylaminoethanol was undertaken in 27 patients with moderately severe or severe Alzheimer's disease. Of 13 patients in the drug group, 6 were withdrawn in the first 5 weeks of the trial because of side ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.970Publication date: 01 July 1981
Pages973–976The authors used longitudinal data from a suburban police department to assess whether increasing numbers of mentally ill individuals are coming to police attention in a state that has restrictive civil commitment laws. To test the hypothesis that police ...
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Pages1000-a–1000In the May 1981 issue, on page 681 of "Antidepressants and α2-Adrenergic Autoreceptor Desensitization" by Larry J. Siever, M.D., Robert M. Cohen, M.D., and Dennis L. Murphy, M.D., the first sentence of the Method and Results section should read, "We ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.7.1000-aPublication date: 01 July 1981
Pages1000-b–1000Also in the May 1981 issue, in "Recidivism in Difficult Patients: Differences Between Community Mental Health Center and State Hospital Admissions" by Edward P. Sheridan, Ph.D., and Linda A. Teplin. Ph.D., the second sentence of the sixth paragraph on ...
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