American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 141
- Number 8
- August 1984
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages935–944The author suggests a minimum set of principles of technique and selection for brief dynamic psychotherapy which are derived from the many partial theories that are now available. He illustrates this integration with a series of cases drawn from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.935Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages945–948The authors conducted a double-blind prospective study of 39 patients with unipolar endogenous depression who recovered after ECT. Thyrotropin (TSH)-releasing hormone (TRH) tests were performed before and after ECT. Patients were divided into three groups ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.945Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages949–955Little attention outside the therapeutic setting has been given to specifying the aspects of social relationships that might be helpful for patients recovering from psychotic episodes. The authors studied 20 patients who had been hospitalized for a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.949Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages956–959Ten veterans who did not develop posttraumatic stress after intense combat in Vietnam were studied to explain what had protected them. The authors found a highly consistent adaptation to combat: During combat each of these veterans had exhibited calmness ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.956Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages960–965The authors report data from a survey of chairmen of academic departments of psychiatry and chiefs of Veterans Administration (VA) psychiatry services concerning administrative relationships between academic psychiatry departments and VA psychiatry ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.960Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages966–970For over 200 years parts of Ireland have been thought to have a high prevalence of psychosis, and recent hospital and community studies have confirmed this impression. In an intensive study of a rural area, the authors found that 4% of the population over ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.966Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages970–974Clinical data from 1,752 ambulatory patients treated at five public mental health clinics were used to test hypotheses concerning the diagnoses and psychopharmacotherapy of Hispanic patients compared with Anglos and blacks. Hispanics were less likely than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.970Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages975–978The decision to change the primary locus of care for chronically ill psychiatric patients from the state mental hospital to the community has often set off a chain reaction of consequences. Notably, reducing the role of institutions has frequently ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.975Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages979–981The authors examine the outcome of 217 malpractice actions against psychiatrists from 1974 to 1978. Claims against psychiatrists represented only 0.3% of the 71,788 claims against all physicians. Loss experience was developed as a function of procedure (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.979Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages982–985The authors examined the dexamethasone suppression test (DST) responses of 41 patients with primary major depressive disorder and 40 patients with other psychiatric disorders who were tested within 2-6 days of hospital admission. Significantly more ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.982Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages986–988After taking the lifetime migraine headache histories of 116 patients with major depressive disorder, the authors compared the prevalence of migraine headaches in these depressed patients with the prevalence of migraine reported in four community surveys. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.986Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages989–990Twenty-seven anorectic and bulimic males and 142 anorectic and bulimic females treated on an eating disorders unit were compared. Significantly more male patients reported experiencing sexual isolation, sexual inactivity, and conflicted homosexuality.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.989Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages991–992Of 32 patients with unipolar or bipolar affective disorder, significantly more bipolar patients had mitral valve prolapse. The prevalence of mitral valve prolapse among bipolar patients was also significantly greater than that in the general population.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.991Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages993–995Three patients with restless legs syndrome, two of whom also had nocturnal myoclonus, responded well to treatment with low doses of opioids. The pathophysiology of the syndrome and the mechanism of opioids' therapeutic action are discussed.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.993Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages995–997To determine whether endogenous opiates are involved in panic anxiety, the authors challenged 12 patients with panic attacks with intravenous naloxone hydrochloride alone or combined with sodium lactate. Naloxone did not produce panic attacks or alter ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.995Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages997–998A 19-year-old man developed a schizophrenia-like psychosis after ingesting isosafrole. His use of amphetamines and LSD failed to produce a similar syndrome. Isosafrole may provide another biochemical model for schizophrenia.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.8.997Publication date: 01 August 1984
Pages999–1000No differences in blood pressure on admission were found between samples of paranoid, paranoid schizophrenic, and nonparanoid psychiatric inpatients. The findings provide evidence against the catecholamine hypotheses of these disorders.
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