American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 147
- Number 3
- March 1990
Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages263–268This article consists of a shortened and annotated translation of a paper on "An Interesting Oral Symptom Complex and Its Relationship to Addiction" by M. Wulff of Berlin, which was delivered before the German Psychoanalytic Society on April 12, 1932. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.263Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages269–278This is the second in a two-part series on psychotherapy for depression. Considering depression as a spectrum phenomenon, the author goes beyond manual-based diagnosis to suggest criteria for the use of psychodynamic, cognitive, or interpersonal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.269Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages279–285Although clinical experience suggests that individuals who have been bereaved as a result of suicide may be especially vulnerable to adverse sequelae, such as unusually severe grief or increased risk of committing suicide themselves, the idea that this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.279Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages286–289The authors report the results of a before-and-after evaluation of an on-site mental health day treatment program for homeless men. Thirty- two subjects were interviewed 6 or more months after placement from a crisis shelter to community housing in order ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.286Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages290–294The authors propose using primary and enduring negative or deficit symptoms for dichotomizing schizophrenic patients into two groups, deficit and nondeficit. The validity of this approach was examined by comparing 17 deficit and 17 nondeficit patients for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.290Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages295–298The authors examined the effects of verbal and visual feedback on subjective awareness of involuntary movements in 20 chronic schizophrenic patients. At initial evaluation only 25% of the patients were fully aware of their movement disorder. Both verbal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.295Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages299–302Two psychiatrists, using standardized clinical examinations, found that 21% of 125 patients newly admitted to nursing homes had delusions. The psychiatric disorders associated with these delusions are described. Delusional patients were more behaviorally ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.299Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages303–308To investigate whether individuals who suffer from chronic, severe headaches have more personality abnormalities or emotional disorders than their healthy counterparts, 162 young adults with classical migraine, ascertained by community survey, were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.303Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages309–312Eight women with bulimia and eight age- and sex-matched normal control subjects were studied with positron emission tomography using [18F]- fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) as a tracer of brain metabolic rate. Subjects performed a visual vigilance task during FDG ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.309Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages313–318The authors used an epidemiologic approach to investigate rates, symptoms, and behavioral concomitants of anxiety across the child and adolescent age span. They drew 210 children aged 8, 12, and 17 in equal numbers from a community sample and evaluated ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.313Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages319–323The authors separated 100 children hospitalized in a child psychiatry service into three groups according to their level of anxiety on the basis of the responses of the children and their parents to diagnostic interviews. Differentiation of the groups of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.319Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages324–329The authors evaluated the impact of a Mental Illness Awareness Week program on the attitudes of adolescents attending public school toward seeking help for mental health problems and toward psychiatrists. Most students involved in the program liked it and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.324Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages330–335The authors interviewed 25 Japanese who had been left as orphans in China at the end of World War II and who had recently returned to Japan with their Chinese spouses after almost four decades. It was found that even though they had been raised as Chinese ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.330Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages335–341The authors examined the relationships between sexual assault and psychiatric disorders in a sample of 1,157 women 18-64 years old in the North Carolina site of the NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program. The results suggest that sexual assault is a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.335Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages342–346The authors describe suicide rates in Toronto and Ontario and methods used for suicide in Toronto for 5 years before and after enactment of Canadian gun control legislation in 1978. They also present data from San Diego, Calif., where state laws attempt ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.342Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages347–349In 220 schizophrenic twins, men had greater asociality-withdrawal and poorer premorbid social competence than women but there were no sex differences in symptoms, suggesting that negative symptoms and social functioning reflect different processes in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.3.347Publication date: 01 March 1990
Pages350–352The authors investigated the relationship between items on the Beck Depression Inventory and CSF levels of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) in 17 depressed patients. Linear regression analysis showed that self-accusation, expectation of punishment, ...
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