American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 151
- Number 9
- September 1994
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1272–1280OBJECTIVE: The authors review the empirical data on generalized anxiety disorder, a diagnostic category that has been among the more conceptually challenging in psychiatric nosology. METHOD: Published studies and recent findings that were considered by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1272Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1281–1288OBJECTIVE: This article provides an overview of the volume, composition, and costs of outpatient psychotherapy in the United States. METHOD: Data were analyzed from the household section of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey. The authors ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1281Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1289–1294OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to characterize the use of psychotherapy based on episode duration. METHOD: Data were analyzed from the household section of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey. The authors determined the demographic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1289Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1295–1299OBJECTIVE: Cognitive behavioral treatment has been used extensively in the acute phase of depression. The purpose of this study was to determine the applicability and effectiveness of this treatment modality in addressing the residual symptoms of primary ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1295Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1300–1304OBJECTIVE: The development of a new structured interview for depressive personality disorder is described. METHOD: A literature search yielded 32 traits associated with depressive personality; these traits were then used to develop the interview. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1300Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1305–1311OBJECTIVE: This exploratory study sought demographic and clinical correlates of self-mutilation (self-injury without suicidal intent) in borderline personality disorder. METHOD: Among 124 consecutively admitted inpatients with borderline personality ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1305Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1312–1315OBJECTIVE: A previous comprehensive literature review indicated that suicide accounted for 18.9% of the deaths of 9,389 individuals with manic-depressive illness. The literature associates these deaths with the depressed phase of the disease. This study ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1312Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1316–1323OBJECTIVE: This study identified potential risk factors for suicidal behavior in patients with borderline personality disorder defined by the Diagnostic Interview for Borderline Patients and by DSM-III-R criteria for patients who did and did not attempt ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1316Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1324–1328OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine whether trauma variables and certain behavioral correlates are differentially prevalent in borderline personality disorder patients with greater and those with lesser dissociative experience. METHOD: ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1324Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1329–1334OBJECTIVE: This study attempted to determine the prevalence of somatic symptoms, somatization disorder, and medical interventions in patients with dissociative disorders. METHOD: Fourteen psychiatric inpatients with a DSM-III dissociative disorder were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1329Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1335–1339OBJECTIVE: The first execution in California since 1976 took place recently in the San Quentin Prison gas chamber. Eighteen journalists were invited as media eyewitnesses. The authors postulated that witnessing this execution was psychologically traumatic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1335Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1340–1350OBJECTIVE: To help evaluate the impact of proposed revisions to the chapter on mental and behavioral disorders for ICD-10, the World Health Organization (WHO) Division of Mental Health organized an international clinical field trial to evaluate draft ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1340Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1351–1360OBJECTIVE: The frequency and ranking of DSM-IV sleep disorder diagnoses of clinical patients with complaints of insomnia, as well as rates of diagnostic agreement and disagreement between two types of interviewers, were investigated. METHOD: Interviewers ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1351Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1361–1367OBJECTIVE: This project focused on the development of the definition of autism for DSM-IV. METHOD: Multiple sites were involved in obtaining information regarding 977 patients with the following clinician- assigned diagnoses: autism (N = 454), other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1361Article
Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1369–1371Serotonergic function in 22 patients with primary dysthymia and 22 normal volunteers was evaluated by measuring [3H]serotonin uptake and [3H]paroxetine binding in platelets. A significantly lower maximum rate of serotonin uptake was noted in the dysthymic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1369Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1372–1374Forty-one patients who had failed to respond to 8 weeks of treatment with 20 mg of fluoxetine were randomly assigned to one of three treatments for 4 weeks: 40-60 mg/day of fluoxetine, 20 mg/day of fluoxetine plus 25-50 mg/day of desipramine, and 20 mg/...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1372Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1375–1376The authors compared parental age, birth order, and sex ratio of siblings for 575 homosexual men and 284 heterosexual men, matched on age and education. They were originally part of Bell, Weinberg, and Hammersmith's large-scale study of male and female ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1375Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1377–1379Seventeen male outpatients with premature ejaculation were randomly assigned to treatment with paroxetine (N = 8) or placebo (N = 9). After a first week dose of 20 mg/day, the paroxetine regimen was increased to 40 mg/day for 5 weeks. Patients and their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1377Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1380–1382The authors sought to identify diagnostic criteria that are relatively specific to borderline personality disorder in severely ill adolescent inpatients and that may predict a stable borderline personality disorder during this turbulent time. Twenty-one ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1380Publication date: 01 September 1994
Pages1383–1385Propranolol, 60 mg or less, was administered daily between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m. to 33 patients with winter depression. After open treatment with a mean dose of 33 mg/day, 24 patients (73%) met the remission criteria; 23 completed double-blind continuation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.151.9.1383Article
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Publication date: 01 September 1994
Page1399This statement was developed by the Committee on Abuse and Misuse of Psychiatry in the U.S.1 of the Council on National Affairs. It was approved by the Board of Trustees in March 1994 and by the Assembly in May 1994.
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