American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 139
- Number 12
- December 1982
Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1531–1538The reciprocal interaction between psychotherapy and theoretical assumptions is illustrated through observations of anorexia nervosa. Traditional psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on interpretation of unconscious processes, was found to be rather ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1531Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1539–1548Phenomena associated with contemporary charismatic religious sects raise questions about the combined impact of group influence and intensely held beliefs on group members' psychological functioning. The author considers the stages of membership in these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1539Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1549–1557The author presents data on 24 patients with psychogenic abdominal pain who were followed by nonpsychiatric physicians for up to 6 years. Twenty were women, many of whose symptoms related to loss. Several personality patterns were observed, including ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1549Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1557–1562The authors examined the differences between 30 patients with familial schizophrenia (those with a schizophrenic first-degree relative) and 83 patients with sporadic schizophrenia (those with a negative family history for schizophrenia). Although the two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1557Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1563–1566The prevalence and extent of relapse and the prevalence and severity of depressive symptoms were measured cross-sectionally in a group of alcohol and drug abusers (N = 842) at 1, 6, or 12 months after their discharge from alcohol or drug abuse treatment. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1563Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1567–1570Plasma from normal subjects and chronic schizophrenic patients produced nearly equal inhibitory effects on platelet and bovine brain monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity. Plasma from controls and patients with high platelet MAO activity caused less decrease ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1567Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1571–1575It is a commonly held view among clinicians that intravenously administered haloperidol has a greater antipsychotic effect than oral haloperidol. To test this hypothesis, the authors carried out a double- blind study on patients with acute schizophrenia ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1571Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1576–1580The authors, who support in principle the important goal of integrated psychological and physical care, discuss five sources of difficulty in the practical application of such integration: 1) differences in values and, consequently, in systems of practice,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1576Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1581–1587Psychiatry shares with the rest of medicine all basic goals, assumptions, and approaches as well as many techniques. Any apparent "differences in approach" between psychiatry and general medicine arise from a confusion between the essentials and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1581Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1590–1593As part of an effort to develop an instrument to measure grief, a 58- item questionnaire was completed by 211 subjects who had lost a loved one because of death. The results demonstrated wide individual variations in specific symptoms and in their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1590Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1593–1595The authors examined the effect of strenuous exercise on the serum lithium levels of four healthy, conditioned athletes who were stabilized on lithium carbonate for 7 days and who ran a 20-km race under hot, humid conditions. The subjects became ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1593Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1596–1598The authors studied the elimination of disulfiram and its metabolites for 24 hours after disulfiram administration in five healthy male alcoholic volunteers. Using high-performance liquid chromatography, they found that a single 500-mg dose resulted in a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1596Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1599–1600The authors provide three case examples of anniversary reactions in psychotherapists evoked in the course of treating patients. They note that psychotherapy has always been discussed in terms of time and phases, which lend themselves to periodicities and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1599Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1601–1603Modified leukotomies were performed on 5 patients with severe, incapacitating obsessional neurosis. Symptoms had been present for 6 or more years in all patients, and 3 had been ill for more than 20 years. All had received adequate trials of more ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1601Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1604–1606When the authors investigated aggressive behavior on a phencyclidine (PCP) detoxification and rehabilitation unit and compared similar types of behavior on a heroin unit, they found no differences between the two units. The urinary PCP levels of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1604Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1607–1610The authors investigated the evolution of psychotherapeutic skills over time in a group of psychiatric residents in their third year of training. A 29-item Supervisors Evaluation Scale measuring psychotherapy skills was developed. Each resident who began ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1607Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1610–1613The authors surveyed women and men psychiatric chief residents who were near the end of their residency training. The findings documented the active participation of women in leadership roles as psychiatric residents in education, administration, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.12.1610Publication date: 01 December 1982
Pages1614–1616The psychiatric clerkship serves the unique role of being the basic psychiatric experience for all physicians. The authors surveyed 680 senior medical students (representing a mean of 32.4% of the students at 15 American medical schools) to obtain ...
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