Psychiatric Services
- Volume 34
- Number 4
- April 1983
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1983
Pages305–308This month's guest expert on differential therapeutics is Dr.Michael Liebowitz, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and director of the anxiety disorders unit at the New ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.4.305Publication date: 01 April 1983
Pages313–322Schizophrenia, a term that encompasses a diverse and seemingly unrelated class of psychopathologic conditions, has been the object of extensive research. This two-part paper reviews developments in specific areas of schizophrenia research. In Part I the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.4.313Distinguishing Bipolar Disorder From Schizophrenia in Clinicai Practice: Guidelines and Case Reports
Publication date: 01 April 1983
Pages322–328Through the use of more refined diagnostic criteria and biological tests, researchers are finding that affective illness afflicts far more patients and schizophrenia far fewer patients than was formerly believed. The presence of putative "schizophrenic" ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.4.322Publication date: 01 April 1983
Pages328–332A wide variety of physical diseases masquerade as psychiatric disorders. Clinicians may be distracted by a patient's chief complaint of anxiety, depression, or personality change and fail to pursue the possibility of organic disease. The author provides a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.4.328Publication date: 01 April 1983
Pages333–342With the deinstitutionalization movement has come the need to develop effective aftercare systems for chronic mental patients in the community. To assess the progress that has been made in aftercare, the authors conducted a review of the journal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.4.333Publication date: 01 April 1983
Pages343–348Fifty-seven chronic schizophrenic patients were followed an average of six years after index mental hospital admission and compared on the variables of depot fluphenazine (N=26) versus oral antipsychotic medications (N=31), and of consistent aftercare ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.4.343Recent Developments in the Care, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of the Chronic Mentally Ill in Norway
Publication date: 01 April 1983
Pages348–352As in most other Western nations, the ideology shaping mental health care in Norway has shifted since World War II from a traditional institutional approach to a community-based concept of treatment for the chronic patient. And as in many other countries, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.4.348Publication date: 01 April 1983
Pages353–355The views of patients on the degree of confidentiality that is necessary for effective psychiatric care have not been empirically investigated, despite their potential importance to the debate. This study examines the views of 30 psychiatric inpatients on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.4.353Publication date: 01 April 1983
Page384The Ideas column features brief notes about interesting or unusual programs, novel approaches to therapy, and useful resources in the mental health field. Contributions to Ideas are welcomed. Items, not exceeding 200 words, should be sent to the Editor, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.4.384