American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 144
- Number 1
- January 1987
Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages1–9In the 16 years since its inception, self psychology has provided a comprehensive theory of psychopathology and treatment. It has articulated a new group of developmental needs and transferences: mirroring, idealizing, and alter ego. The failure of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.1Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages10–18The authors review research over the past decade on the social, social- psychological, and psychiatric correlates of community adaptation among discharged psychiatric patients. A review of 33 studies suggests that little theoretical or methodological ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.10Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages19–24The authors describe the application of experiential sampling, a new time-sampling method, to the assessment of rapid state changes in a woman with multiple personality disorder. She was signaled at random intervals during study periods and asked to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.19Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages25–29Diazepam has well-known amnestic properties. These effects, however, are selective for certain psychobiologically distinct memory functions. In this study, incremental doses of diazepam administered to 10 normal volunteers selectively impaired anterograde ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.25Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages30–35To evaluate the dexamethasone suppression test (DST) as an aid in monitoring clinical recovery, the authors evaluated 127 outpatients with major depression who received the DST during depression and after clinical recovery. Although DST response varied ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.30Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages35–40The authors report prospective uniform clinical data differentiating 25 patients who committed suicide from 929 patients who did not in a group of 954 patients with major affective disorder followed for an average of 4 years in the Collaborative Program ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.35Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages41–45The authors examined the frequency and severity of depressive symptoms in elderly patients with presumed primary degenerative dementia and identified the signs and symptoms that provide a reliable basis for diagnosing depression. Forty-four patients and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.41Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages46–50The authors studied 33 patients with central serous chorioretinopathy and found that a very disturbing psychological event had preceded the loss of vision in 91% of the cases. The acute disturbance preceded the first visual symptoms by an average of 7 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.46Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages51–55The authors conducted an exploratory study of the nature and course of reactivation of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Experienced psychiatrists, they each independently assessed 35 men with recurrent combat-related posttraumatic stress ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.51Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages56–61In Puerto Rico, spiritism offers a traditional alternative to community mental health services. The author compares reported expectations and outcomes of mental health center patients and patients of spiritist healers. The spiritists' patients reported ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.56Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages62–67The authors conducted a prospective study of the impact of the Rogers decision involving patients' right to refuse treatment during the first year (1983-1984) of its implementation in the Massachusetts facility for the criminally insane. They learned that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.62Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages68–74The authors discuss current public policy concerning the treatment of potentially violent psychiatric patients and outline some legal and ethical precedents of the current policy. Therapeutic interventions before and after the Tarasoff decision are ...
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Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages82–85In a prospective study of 25 patients from the time of hospitalization, seven had recently discontinued psychotropic agents (including antidepressants, neuroleptics, and benzodiazepines). All seven had positive dexamethasone suppression test results after ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.82Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages86–88Treatment of the acute phase of recurrent depression has become both routine and successful in the last decade, but the rates of relapse and recurrence remain a problem. In this study a combined psychopharmacologic/psychotherapeutic approach to the acute ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.86Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages89–92Nocturnal penile tumescence recordings were performed in 10 men with major depression and 10 age-matched healthy control subjects to evaluate the possibility that clinical disturbances in sexual interest and activity often reported by depressed persons ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.89Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages93–96The authors present psychiatric and neurologic data on 20 patients who developed mania after closed head trauma. An association was seen between severity of head trauma (based on length of posttraumatic amnesia), posttraumatic seizure disorder, and type ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.93Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages96–98In a study of 19 manic patients, the authors found that eight suffered from mixed mania, a condition in which depressive symptoms are found in the context of classic manic features. The presence of a mixed manic state predicted at least a slower and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.96Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages99–102This investigation addressed the question of affective disturbance in schizophrenia by applying quantitative measurement techniques to patients' facial behavior. The subjects were medication-free male inpatients: nine nonparanoid and six paranoid ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.99Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages102–106DSM-III suggests that axis IV should have prognostic value--that patients with higher scores will have a better outcome than patients with low ratings. The authors used axis IV to assign scores to 130 depressed inpatients and examined these scores in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.102Publication date: 01 January 1987
Pages107–109The Alaska mental health program is endowed with a 1-million-acre trust fund. A coalition of groups that make up the mental health constituency of the state united in a lawsuit to establish the trust. The history of this legacy, the struggle to realize ...
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Pages126-a–126On the cover and in the table of contents of the November 1986 issue, the first name of one of the authors of "Lethal Catatonia" by Mann, Caroff, Bleier, et al. was misspelled. The correct name is Stephan C. Mann. The staff regrets this error.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.1.126-aPublication date: 01 January 1987
Pages126-b–126The author of the book review of Blood Brothers: Siblings as Writers (pages 1615-1616 of the December 1986 issue) has informed us that there is an error in the review. He stated that Anthony and Peter Shaffer were the "one instance where both brothers are ...
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