American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 131, Issue 11
November 1974
Article
November 1974
Psychopolitics
- Pages:1197–1203
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1197
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Power, money, and the welfare of millions of Americans are today entrusted to a handful of psychiatric administrators, many of whom are inadequately trained for their jobs and often become entangled in political controversies that limit their ...
November 1974
Taste Aversions in Man
- Pages:1204–1207
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1204
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A survey of 696 subjects revealed that taste aversions may be acquired by a special kind of learning that has previously been demonstrated clearly only in animals. Gastrointestinal illness was associated with acquisition of aversions in 87 percent of the ...
November 1974
Microanalysis of Working Through in Psychotherapy
- Pages:1208–1212
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1208
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This journal has published few papers on psychodynamic psychotherapy recently—not because of prejudice but because only a few such papers have been submitted. One of the reasons for the paucity of psychodynamic papers is that they usually require lengthy ...
November 1974
The Combined Accelerated Program in Psychiatry: A Progress Report
- Pages:1213–1216
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1213
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The authors report on the nature and progress of the Combined Accelerated Program in Psychiatry (CAPP), now in its fourth year of operation. The program involves three and a half years of undergraduate and two and a half of postgraduate training. ...
November 1974
A Comparison of Patients Discharged Against Medical Advice with a Matched Control Group
- Pages:1217–1220
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1217
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This study examines prospective admission and follow-up variables by comparing 21 psychiatric patients leaving an institutional facility against medical advice (AMA) with 21 control patients. The authors conclude that leaving AMA is not necessarily ...
November 1974
Depersonalization
- Pages:1221–1224
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1221
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The author presents three cases that demonstrate the phenomenon of depersonalization as a psychological defense in both neurotic and psychotic clinical situations. Organic, general psychiatric, and psychoanalytic theories of the etiology of ...
November 1974
Corticotropin Release During ECT in Man
- Pages:1225–1228
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1225
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The authors studied patterns of corticotropin (ACTH) secretion following single and multiple electrically induced convulsions in the course of treating seven psychiatric patients. All seven patients improved clinically after administration of ECT along ...
November 1974
The American Community in Bangkok, Thailand: A Model of Social Disintegration
- Pages:1229–1233
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1229
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The author suggests that the high prevalence of psychopathology (as measured by the number of marital problems and emotional problems of adolescents requiring professional care) noted in the American community in Bangkok, Thailand, during 1971-1972 was ...
November 1974
Affective Illness in Veteran Twins: A Diagnostic Review
- Pages:1234–1239
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1234
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The authors systematically reviewed diagnoses in the Veteran Twin Registry and found 62 pairs of twins (69 individuals) in which one or both had affective illness, a frequency of .22 percent (monozygotic [MZ] concordance = 33 percent, dizygotic [DZ] ...
November 1974
Alterations in Cell Membrane Activity in Depression
- J. MENDELS, and
- A. FRAZER
- Pages:1240–1246
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1240
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Findings from a series of related experiments led to a working hypothesis suggesting that there may be an abnormality in aspects of cell membrane properties that normally regulate the movement of electrolytes across the plasma membrane in a subgroup of ...
November 1974
Peyote in the Treatment of Alcoholism Among American Indians
- Pages:1247–1250
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1247
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The authors examine the development and effectiveness of a treatment program for alcoholism among American Indians. This program offers the alcoholic Indian both occupational and cultural therapy, including participation in the services of the Native ...
November 1974
On the Orthomolecular Environment of the Mind: Orthomolecular Theory
- Pages:1251–1257
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1251
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The author defines orthomolecular psychiatry as the achievement and preservation of good mental health by the provision of the optimum molecular environment for the mind, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human ...
November 1974
Comment
- Pages:1258–1262
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1258
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In summary: 1) Are the principles of the orthomolecular hypothesis reasonable and testable? They are reasonable and they would be more testable if more specific. 2) Is there evidence that there are deficits consistent with this theory in some ...
November 1974
Psychiatrists' Responses to Sexual Bias in Pharmaceutical Advertising
- Pages:1273–1275
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1273
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Of the psychiatrists responding to this study's questionnaire, 45 percent perceived pharmaceutical advertisements from a randomly selected issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry as showing sexual bias that might negatively influence physicians' ...
November 1974
Reversal of Delirium Induced by Tricyclic Antidepressant Drugs with Physostigmine
- Pages:1275–1277
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1275
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The authors found that 2 mg. of physostigmine given intramuscularly was effective in reversing acute brain syndromes in two patients who had ingested toxic doses of drugs with anticholinergic properties (amitriptyline alone and an amitriptyline-...
November 1974
The Combined Abuse of Alcohol and Amphetamines
- Pages:1277–1280
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1277
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The authors interviewed 15 men who used both alcohol and amphetamines. Clinical histories indicated the existence of two types of abuse patterns—one primarily concerned with the effects of amphetamines and the other with the effects of alcohol. The ...
November 1974
Acute Organic Brain Syndrome: A Complication of Disulfiram Therapy
- Pages:1281–1282
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1281
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Consecutive admissions over a three-month period to a general psychiatric ward in a large urban medical center were reviewed for the presence of acute organic brain syndrome in patients being treated with disulfiram for chronic alcoholism. Five such cases ...
November 1974
A Computerized Self-Assessment Examination for Residents
- Pages:1283–1286
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1283
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The author administered 194 randomly selected multiple-choice questions from the APA Psychiatric Knowledge and Skills Self-Assessment Program to 65 residents via a computerized response apparatus. The system provides immediate feedback on each question ...
November 1974
Social Constriction in Psychiatric Patients: A Normative Study
- Pages:1287–1288
- Published Online:12 February 2015
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1287
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The authors analyzed scores on the Bates-Zimmerman Social Constriction Scale and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) administered to 132 psychiatric inpatients. Neurotic patients evidenced a higher level of social constriction than did ...
November 1974
Dominance and Sexual Behavior Related to Psychoanalytic Literature
- Page:1289
- Published Online:12 February 2015
November 1974
Ethology, Anthropology, and Psychiatry
- Pages:1290-b–1291
- Published Online:12 February 2015
November 1974
Clorazepate Dipotassium in Tardive Dyskinesia
- Pages:1291-a–1291
- Published Online:12 February 2015