American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 142
- Number 8
- August 1985
Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages889–894As videotaping, one-way screens, and other audiovisual aids are used more frequently for teaching and research purposes in psychiatry, it becomes increasingly important to define how the fact of observation changes the traditionally private psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.889Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages895–904Claims have been made that epilepsy is associated with both brief psychotic episodes and persistent psychotic states. The existence of brief, nonconfusional psychotic episodes in epilepsy has received some formal support; these may be a function of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.895Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages905–910To test the hypothesis that young depressed patients have prolonged rather than shortened sleep, 14 depressed patients aged 17-25 and age- matched normal control subjects were allowed to sleep as long as they wanted. All subjects increased their sleep ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.905Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages911–916The author obtained a longitudinal psychiatric history from 30 patients with proven Cushing's syndrome. Twenty-five (83%) of the patients met strict diagnostic criteria for an episode of affective disorder during the course of their endocrine disturbance. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.911Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages917–921In an attempt to test the hypothesis that therapist empathy is an important variable in successful dynamic therapy, the authors collected outcome measures and empathy ratings in the brief focal dynamic therapy of 59 patients. There was no significant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.917Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages922–926The authors studied six patients treated in time-limited dynamic psychotherapy who had initially poor therapeutic alliance scores; three patients went on to have improved alliances and good outcomes, and three had unimproved alliances and poor outcomes. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.922Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages927–934The authors determined the risk for psychiatric disorders in the first- degree relatives of 36 probands with schizotypal personality disorder (13 definite, 23 probable), 17 probands with borderline personality disorder (two definite, 15 probable), and 90 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.927Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages934–938Recent work has shown that nonpsychiatrist physicians are surprisingly active in the mental health arena. Using the two most recent National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys (1980-1981), the authors analyzed the provision of counseling services by general ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.934Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages939–942The safety of an order for medication as needed depends on assumptions and knowledge that may or may not accompany that order. Physicians should consider carefully the need for prescribing potent medications on an as-needed basis for newly admitted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.939Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages943–946The authors assessed the predictive value of "difficult" temperament, as defined in the New York Longitudinal Study, in 12-year-old children from the general population of Quebec City whose temperaments had been determined to be difficult or easy at age ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.943Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages947–950Lactate infusions produced panic attacks in one of 15 patients with social phobia, four of nine with agoraphobia, and 10 of 20 with panic disorder in a blind study. The proportion of patients with social phobia who panicked in response to lactate was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.947Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages950–953The authors implemented a new procedure for analyzing phencyclidine (PCP) content in hair. They compare the results of analyses of hair with results of analyses of blood and urine in 47 patients newly hospitalized with acute psychiatric illness. Hair ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.950Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages953–955The literature on hysterical or brief reactive psychosis reflects great diversity both in clinical description and theoretical formulation. The authors describe the case of a 17-year-old girl who presented with a diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.953Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages956–959One year after receiving a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder, five of 12 Cambodian concentration camp survivors who entered a treatment program no longer met the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, and symptoms in three others had improved. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.956Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages960–963Of 2,916 patients evaluated by psychiatric residents in the outpatient clinics of two large private psychiatric hospitals, 3% had manifested recent assaultive behavior toward other persons. In over half the cases the target of assault was a family member ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.960Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages964–967The authors describe the availability and characteristics of noninstitutional treatment for sex offenders found in a survey of 63 community mental health providers in Florida. The results cover offense categories, referral sources, numbers in treatment, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.964Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages967–969Cluster analysis of 89 near-death experiences yielded three discrete types of such experiences: transcendental, affective, and cognitive. Demographic variables did not differentiate individuals having these different types of experiences, but cognitive ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.967Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages970–971Measurements of the cerebellar vermis and height of the fourth ventricle made from midsagittal brain images obtained with magnetic resonance imaging did not show any differences between patients with schizophrenia and matched normal control subjects.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.970Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages972–973Among 76 chronic schizophrenic patients, plasma amine oxidase activity was unrelated to paranoid/nonparanoid subtype, narrow/broad diagnostic criteria, prognosis, or age at onset. These clinical indices do not identify biological subtypes of schizophrenia ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.142.8.972Publication date: 01 August 1985
Pages974–975The growing number of psychiatrists who prescribe carbamazepine therapy should be alert to the drug's potential complications. The authors report three such cases: one of hepatitis, one of a fatality due to aplastic anemia, and one of a severe ...
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