Psychiatric Services
- Volume 45
- Number 10
- October 1994
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages967–968Telling patients that they are "in remission" when they are only in partial remission may impede further recovery. Instead, patients should be assisted and empowered to move past residual delusions, become consistently considerate of others, and work to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.967Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages975–977Our findings indicate that the public hospital had a disproportionate number of admissions with chronic mental illness and lower socioeconomic status compared with the private hospital. If the two facilities provide the same quality of care, then this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.975Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages978–980In 1964 Bartemeier (1) expressed concern about the distancing of psychiatry from occupational therapy and emphasized the need for conjoint efforts. At the 1993 Institute on Hospital and Community Psychiatry, psychiatrist Marianne Klugheit (9) challenged ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.978Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages981–985Tragically, as we have seen, very little of what is considered optimal psychiatric care was available when Nijinsky became mentally ill. Not only was he treated in ways that nowadays would be considered undesirable, but there was little if any attempt to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.981Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages987–992Over the past 150 years, support for providing appropriate services for mentally ill persons has waxed and waned. in colonial America, mentally ill persons were institutionalized in jails or almshouses. in the 18th and 19th centuries, asylums constituted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.987Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages993–1004Objective: The author reviewed the history of American psychiatry for the first 150 years of the American Psychiatric Association's existencece (1844-1994) as reflected in remarks of the association's presidents. Methods: Presidential addresses or remarks ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.993Publication date: 01 October 1994
Page1004The last four references in the paper entitled "Using Intensive Case Management to Reduce Violence by Mentally Ill Persons in the Community" by joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., and Henry J. Steadman, Ph.D., in the July 1994 issue (pages 679-684) were inadvertently ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.1004Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1005–1010American forensic psychiatry was founded in 1838 with the publication of Isaac Ray's Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity. Ray's ideas were influential in the early history of forensic psychiatry but were overlooked in the formulation of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.1005Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1010–1014The author presents his perspectives on the relationship between antipsychiatry and the stigma of mental illness. Stigma has existed at least since biblical times, when madness as demonic possession and punishment for sin became codified in religious ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.1010Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1015–1020Psychiatric rehabilitation, which is aimed at helping persons who have long-term mental illness to develop their capacities to the fullest possible extent, has been an integral part of psychiatric treatment in the U.S. since the beginnings of moral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.1015Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1021–1025Objective: The authors'goal was to compare distribution of diagnoses, length of stay, and read mission rates for every 16th patient admitted to the St. Louis County Insane Asylum (now St. Louis State Hospital) between 1886 and 1904 with those for every ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.1021Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1025–1029Data from archival sources were used to determine the kinds of patients treated at the St. Louis City (later St. Louis County) Insane Asylum, the treatments they received, activities of daily life in the asylum, and political factors affecting operation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.1025Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1030–1033In the 19th century, when bleeding and purging were widely used in mainstream medicine, homeopathy was warmly embraced by some U. S. practitioners as a more humane alternative. Developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann, homeopathy sought to cure ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.45.10.1030Publication date: 01 October 1994
Pages1034–1039Objective: The authors exam, ined important trends and developments within the mental health field since the 1960s as reflected in articles publisbed in Hospital and Community Psychiatry. Methods: A total of 798 articles were reviewed, representing all ...
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