Psychiatric Services
- Volume 34
- Number 9
- September 1983
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1983
Pages777–778This month's column answers commonly asked questions about the anxiety disorders categories of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Future columns will deal with the DSM-III classifications of personality ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.9.777Publication date: 01 September 1983
Pages807–811Homelessness is not a new problem in the United States, but during the current recession we have witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of people, many of them mentally ill, who live on the streets of American cities. The author traces the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.9.807Publication date: 01 September 1983
Page811Lawrence Sporty, M.D., vicechairman ofthe department of psychiatry and human behavior of the University of California, Irvine, Medical Center in Orange, California, should have been listed as a contributing author of "A Modifled Milieu for Acute Patients" ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.9.811Publication date: 01 September 1983
Pages811-a–811In "Establishing a Psychiatric Library," by Phyllis Rubinton, M.L.S., in the May 1983 issue (pages 444-450), the correct volume number in Appendix 1 for "Reading About Psychoanalysis" in the British Journal of Psychiatry is volume 139. In Appendix 3, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.9.811-aPublication date: 01 September 1983
Pages812–817During the winter of 1981-82 the City of Philadelphia operated an adult emergency shelter for two months. After reviewing the available records, the authors compiled a psychiatric profile of the 193 residents admitted to the shelter. They grouped the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.9.812Publication date: 01 September 1983
Pages817–821The plight of the homeless in New York City and other urban areas has become the focus of increasing attention. In an effort to clarify and understand the problems of the homeless, the authors studied the demographic characteristics, psychiatric diagnoses,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.9.817Publication date: 01 September 1983
Pages822–830Part II of a two-part review of affective disorders covers laboratory and pathogenetic approaches. Recent developments in psychoendocrinology and sleep electroencephalography have provided the clinician with biologic procedures that may serve as ancillary ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.9.822Publication date: 01 September 1983
Pages830–835Ten to 33 percent of the patients who present for evaluation of dementia are found to have a potentially reversible cause of dementia such as a metabolic, structural, or psychiatric condition. Another group of patients who present with symptoms or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.9.830Publication date: 01 September 1983
Pages836–841As fiscal resources for mental health programs dwindle, it is becoming increasingly important to preserve non-direct-service priorities such as staff development. The West Virginia Training Resources Center, a collaborative program operated by the West ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.9.836Publication date: 01 September 1983
Pages842–846Inpatient psychiatric facilities are admitting an increasing number of young patients with chronic character pathology. Hospitals must explore the impact these patients have on the treatment facility and the risks inherent in their treatment, including ...
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