American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 142
- Number 6
- June 1985
Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages667–674In recent years it has become apparent that father-daughter incest is not an uncommon occurrence. Many social forces have conspired to maintain secrecy at both the family and societal levels. The authors examine the evolution of professional attitudes and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.667Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages675–679The assignment of therapeutic tasks derived from learning theory to the patient by the therapist constitutes behavioral prescribing. After discussing some issues involved in comparing schools of psychotherapy and briefly examining some behavioral aspects ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.675Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages680–686This report details the development of an empirical suicide risk scale for adults hospitalized due to a depressive or suicidal state. The authors studied 2,753 such subjects prospectively regarding 101 psychosocial variables. In a 2-year follow-up, 136 (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.680Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages687–691The authors examine the validity of the diagnosis of major depression in nine children and adolescents assessed as part of a study of offspring of parents who had affective disorders. The authors conclude that these nine children were suffering from valid ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.687Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages692–696Twenty-nine patients given unilateral ECT were tested for memory with each treatment. Forgetting of nonverbal material correlated positively with seizure duration and with anesthetic dose. Seizure duration did not correlate with forgetting of verbal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.692Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages697–701The authors assessed the relevance of narrowly defined diagnostic criteria to genetic research in schizophrenia in the nuclear families of 84 chronic schizophrenic probands compared with families of 90 normal control probands. The morbidity risk for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.697Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages702–707To study the course of psychosis in early schizophrenia, the authors assessed 111 patients at hospitalization and at one or two follow-ups. The course of psychosis was analyzed separately for broad (DSM-II) and narrow (DSM-III) concepts of schizophrenia. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.702Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages708–714The authors studied the effect of parent loss during the first 18 years of life and its interactions with family size and sibling order in a nonpsychiatric population of 247 men. Groups defined by loss type, family size, and sibling order were compared ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.708Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages715–720A battery of vestibular and audiological tests was administered to eight patients with panic disorder and 13 patients with agoraphobia and panic attacks, all of whom experienced dizziness during their panic attacks. Positional or spontaneous nystagmus was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.715Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages720–724On the basis of the existing data and his own clinical study, the author provides an overall systematization of emotional features of narcissistic personality disorder. The division of narcissistic emotions into primary and secondary, positive and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.720Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages725–727Exposure to light during the night reduces plasma melatonin levels. A previous study showed that, in response to light, nighttime plasma melatonin levels fell twice as much in a group of acutely ill manic- depressive patients as in a group of normal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.725Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages728–731Mild to moderate depression is common among women during the first 3 months postpartum. The authors studied 20 normal pregnant women in the hope of finding valid predictors of postpartum mood disorder. The subjects rated their level of emotions and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.728Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages731–734CAT scans were performed in 66 patients with neuropsychiatric disorders of childhood (infantile autism, attention deficit disorder, Tourette's disorder, and language disorder) and a control group of 20 medical patients. Ventricular volume and brain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.731Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages735–737Strong social support systems, which in epidemiologic studies are associated with decreased morbidity and mortality, have been hypothesized to mitigate the harmful effects of stressful stimuli on the individual. The authors found that, among 256 healthy ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.735Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages738–740In this study, the infusion of physostigmine in 14 patients with affective disorder who were pretreated with methscopolamine caused significant and often profound increases in the patients' epinephrine levels, pulse rates, and blood pressure. Since ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.738Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages741–743Twenty-six Vietnam veterans were studied to determine the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and hypnotizability. The intensity of their posttraumatic stress disorder was measured by a self- report. Their hypnotizability scores, vividness ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.741Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages744–746Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) generally have very limited coverage of mental health care and have been charged with shortchanging chronic patients in the interests of economy. The authors analyzed 1979- 1980 coverage and utilization data from 53 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.744Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages747–751Obsessive-compulsive disorder and major depressive disorder are associated by several lines of evidence. To explore the possible relationship between the two disorders, the authors administered 1-mg dexamethasone suppression tests to 18 patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.747Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages752–754One hundred nine psychiatrists who had been commissioners of state departments of mental health answered a questionnaire about their experiences after being commissioners. Most of these former commissioners got jobs they wanted after leaving the post. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.752Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages755–758The authors surveyed directors of residency training to determine the extent to which DSM-III has been integrated into American psychiatric residency training programs, how this has been accomplished, and the directors' assessments of certain effects of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.755Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages759–760A woman with a family history but no personal history of depression developed bipolar symptoms associated with manipulations of her antihypertensive regimen. The author discusses hypotheses regarding the effects of these manipulations and the implications ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.759Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages761–762There were no differences in interepisode functioning or side effects between bipolar patients (N = 44) with plasma lithium levels above the median and those with levels below the median. Low levels were able to stabilize mood and individual symptoms for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.6.761Publication date: 01 June 1985
Pages763–764Two Alzheimer's patients with disabling depression failed to respond to standard antidepressants but improved with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. The author points out that the cholinergic system is involved in Alzheimer's symptoms and that demented ...
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