American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 149
- Number 12
- December 1992
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1623–1632OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is the assessment of the healer's listening as an aspect of the history of caring and curing, with particular attention to its place in psychological healing. METHOD: An extensive range of philosophical, religious, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1623Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1633–1644OBJECTIVE: The authors reviewed available evidence regarding the status of dysphoric or mixed mania as a distinct clinical state and formulated operational criteria for its diagnosis. METHOD: Studies of dysphoric mania or hypomania in patients with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1633Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1645–1653This article reviews evidence for the reliability and diagnostic concordance of structured-interview and self-report questionnaire methods for the diagnosis of personality disorders. The findings of nine studies that compared two or more axis II ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1645Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1654–1659OBJECTIVE: As part of the Harvard resource-based relative value scale study, the authors investigated how well the codes in the Physician's Current Procedural Terminology, 4th edition, or CPT-4, match psychiatric services to the work involved in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1654Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1660–1665OBJECTIVE: To assess lineality in families of bipolar I probands, the authors used direct interviews of family members to reclassify families initially categorized as unilineal by family history. METHOD: The families of 1,800 treated bipolar I probands ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1660Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1666–1673OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether the distinction between schizoaffective disorder and affective disorders with mood-incongruent psychotic features as described in DSM-III-R is reflected by aggregation of schizophrenia in the families of probands ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1666Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1674–1686OBJECTIVE: Diagnostic classification and reliability are critical in genetic linkage studies of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. To establish an optimal diagnostic procedure, the authors drew 13 methodological elements from 38 major linkage studies and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1674Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1687–1692OBJECTIVE: The authors examined the rate of response to the combination of nortriptyline and interpersonal psychotherapy for acute and continuation treatment of elderly patients with recurrent major depression. METHOD: The subjects were 73 elderly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1687Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1693–1700OBJECTIVE: The investigators examined the frequency of religious coping among older medical inpatients, the characteristics of those who use it, and the relation between this behavior and depression. METHOD: The subjects were 850 men aged 65 years and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1693Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1701–1706OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of visual hallucinations in patients with macular degeneration, describe such hallucinations phenomenologically, and possibly determine factors predisposing to their development. METHOD: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1701Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1707–1710OBJECTIVE: The aim of the current study was to systematically assess the psychological effects of the Persian Gulf War on a nonclinical group of elderly Israeli civilians with and without a Holocaust background. METHOD: Sixty-one elderly Holocaust ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1707Utilization of neuropsychiatric diagnostic tests for general hospital patients with mental disorders
Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1711–1717OBJECTIVE: The author's goal was to determine the frequency and distribution of neuropsychiatric diagnostic tests provided to general hospital patients with mental disorders. METHOD: Data from the 1989 National Hospital Discharge Survey were analyzed to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1711Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1718–1722OBJECTIVE: Schizophrenic patients are particularly deficient on measures of executive functioning, notably the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. This study was conducted to determine the efficacy of a cuing strategy in facilitating performance on this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1718Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1723–1726OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to determine whether a history of physical or sexual abuse is more common in children with borderline personality disorder than in other children evaluated in the same outpatient psychiatric clinic. METHOD: The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1723Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1727–1729The authors used a systematic life-chart methodology to observe four patients with bipolar disorder in whom long periods (6-15 years) of effective lithium prophylaxis were followed by relapses on lithium discontinuation. Once the drug was reinstituted, it ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.149.12.1727Publication date: 01 December 1992
Pages1730–1731A novel, simple approach to retrospective assessment of "blindability" was applied to data on outpatients in a controlled, double-blind clinical comparison of a putative antidepressant, etoperidone, and placebo. A "blind" evaluator proved capable of ...
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