Defining "symbol" as that which draws together and unites experience and "myth" as a cluster of symbols set in dramatic form, the author discusses the lack of both symbols and myths in contemporary sociaty. This lack had led to a disintegration of ...

July 1975

Some observations and questions in intensive psychotherapy

Pages:707–709
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.707

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The authors discuss their observations of acute psychiatric patients in a day hospital, noting the universality of the existential concerns that arise once the patient has confronted his illness. They discuss the problem of what determins a "cure" in ...

July 1975

Obstacles to utilization of prepaid mental health care

Pages:710–715
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.710

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The coverage of out-of-hospital expenses for mental health care through prepayment and insurance programs has been a major advance in removing the economic barriers to early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders. However, obstacles to ...

July 1975

Depression, Delusions, and Drug Response

Pages:716–719
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.716

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Depressed patients with delusions were found to be markedly unresponsive to tricyclic drug therapy during an ongoing study of depressed patients. After four weeks of administration of imipramine hydrochloride, only 3 of 13 delusional depressed patients ...

July 1975

"Sociopathy" and its synonyms: inappropriate diagnoses in child psychiatry

Pages:720–722
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.720

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The use of the diagnosis "sociopathy" and its synonyms hinders the search for other kinds of symptomatology, the recognition of which might lead to appropriate therapeutic intervention. The authors therefore suggest that the terms "sociopathic personality,...

July 1975

Methylphenidate and caffine in the treatment of children with minimal brain dysfunction

Pages:723–728
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.723

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In this double-blind, crossover study of 8 boys with minimal brain dysfunction, 20 mg of methylphenidate daily was significantly better than 160 mg of caffeine in controlling behavior, especially impulsivity and hyperactivity, and methylphenidate alone ...

July 1975

The psychiatric chief residency: a preliminary training experience in administrative process

Pages:729–733
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.729

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Drawing on their experience, the authors explore the opportunity for learning administrative process that is available to the psychiatric chief resident. They categorize six models of the psychiatric chief residency and document two of them, the ward ...

July 1975

Comprehensive drug programs: the Dade County example

Pages:734–738
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.734

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The authors present data from a survey of four methadone maintenance programs, five outpatient clinics, six nonresidential facilities, and nine therapeutic communities affiliated with the Dade County Comprehensive Drug Program. The treatment population ...

July 1975

Editorial: Dichotomies, states, and structures

Pages:739–740
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.739

July 1975

Manic-depressive illness and good prognosis schizophrenia

Pages:741–742
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.741

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The authors examined 88 patients with an admission diagnosis of schizophrenia for the presence of good and poor clinical prognostic signs and related their findings to the clinical presentation, response to somatic treatments, and prevalence of illness in ...

July 1975

Delayed severe extrapyramidal disturbance following frequent depot phenothiazine administration

Pages:743–745
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.743

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The authors report the occurrence of a sever striopallidal disorder in a schizophrenic patient one week after he received fluphenazine enanthate injections on an every-other-day schedule. In view of current interest in depot psychopharmaceuticals, they ...

July 1975

The summit-annotated contract technique for hospitalized adolescents

Pages:745–747
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.745

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The author describes a technique for use with adolescents (perferably nonpsychotic, acting-out patients) in the terminal phase of psychiatric hospitalization. Patient, parents, and therapist have a summit meeting during which they write a contract which ...

July 1975

Personality Characteristics of Viet Nam veterans identified as heroin abusers

Pages:748–749
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.748

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The author presents data on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) characteristics of a sample of enlisted Army men returning from Viet Nam identified as heroin abusers. Although a marked heterogeneity of MMPI profile types was found, a ...

July 1975

Psychosexual and cultural determinants of fertility choice behavior

Pages:750–753
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.750

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Although traditional societies in Oceania direct their fertility choice behavior (if any) toward spirits rather than sexual intercourse, closer observation shows that these fertility choice behaviors, while groping and magical, sometimes have empirical ...

July 1975

A syndrome of depression and mutism in the Oglala Sioux

Pages:753–755
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.132.7.753

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The wacinko syndrome in the Oglala Sioux varies from a nonclinical reaction to pathological degrees of anger, pouting, withdrawal, depression, psychomotor retardation, mutism, immobility, and even to suicide. Although indigenous proctitioners recognize ...

July 1975