American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 126, Issue 8
February 1970
Article
February 1970
Computer Derived Global Judgments in Psychiatry
- Pages:1057–1066
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1057
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The authors describe a system in which factor scores obtained on a routine daily basis for each patient from computer scored nursing notes are subjected to sequential analysis to yield computer global decisions of "significantly better," "worse," or "...
February 1970
Psychoendocrinology of Ego Disintegration
- Pages:1067–1078
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1067
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The authors describe the clinical and endocrine characteristics of the state of acute ego disorganization that initiated the schizophrenic episodes of four young men. Corticosteroid excretion during this phase reached levels 250 percent of subsequent ...
February 1970
Homosexuality: III. Psychiatric Disorders and Disability in the Male Homosexual
- Pages:1079–1086
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1079
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There was little difference demonstrated in the prevalence of psychopathology between a group of 89 male homosexuals and a control group of 35 unmarried men. There was, however, slightly more disability and more clinically significant change in the lives ...
February 1970
The Destructiveness of Myths
- Pages:1087–1092
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1087
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The fact that myths may disguise the truth makes them potentially destructive, particularly when their legends become institutionalized. The author corrects some myths about the Negro past, especially in regard to slavery. He notes that some of the ...
February 1970
Behavior Therapy of Anorexia Nervosa: Effectiveness of Activity as a Reinforcer of Weight Gain
- Pages:1093–1098
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1093
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The authors present a technique for weight restoration in a condition that is often highly refractory to therapy, with mortality rates of up to 15 percent. Operant reinforcement was applied to three consecutive patients by making access to physical ...
February 1970
Hypersexual Episodes in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
- Pages:1099–1106
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1099
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The most common sexual abnormality in temporal lobe epilepsy is a marked lack of libidinal and genital arousal. The author documents the occurrence of hypersexual behavior in 50 temporal lobe epileptics, 42 of whom had unilateral temporal lobectomy. ...
February 1970
Organizational Obstacles to Change in a Large Mental Hospital
- Pages:1107–1114
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1107
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To understand the problems associated with large-scale change in mental hospitals, the assessment of organizational factors is of primary importance. The unitization of Philadelphia State Hospital provided the setting for discussing one approach to this ...
February 1970
The Teaching of Psychiatry to Medical Students: Past, Present, and Future
- Pages:1115–1126
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1115
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The author, after paying tribute to the late chief of the NIMH training branch, describes past and current psychiatric education. Among the contributions he believes psychiatry has made to medical education are its emphasis on methods of observation and ...
February 1970
The Implications of Changing Medical Education for Psychiatric Training Institutions
- Pages:1127–1131
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1127
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The authors describe an experimental program at the University of Wisconsin that will integrate medical school, internship, and psychiatric residency years to allow selected medical students to complete their basic medical and psychiatric specialty ...
February 1970
The Trainees' Viewpoint of Psychiatric Residency
- Pages:1132–1138
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1132
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This study reports results from a questionnaire study of 160 psychiatric residents receiving training in the nine institutions; data were obtained on their demographic characteristics and satisfaction with training. Results indicated that a great deal of ...
February 1970
Long-Term Intensive Group Psychotherapy with Psychiatric Residents as Part of Residency Training
- Pages:1138–1143
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1138
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At New York Medical College—Metropolitan Hospital Center all psychiatric residents may participate in psychotherapy groups. The significant success of the program is related to "structured interaction," the therapist's creation of a structural matrix ...
February 1970
Training Psychiatrists from Developing Nations
- Pages:1143–1149
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1143
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Foreign physicians face critical linguistic and cultural barriers to learning American psychiatry. Furthermore, conventional training programs effectively deprive many of them of freedom of choice by forging a professional identity incompatible with ...
February 1970
Teaching Social Science During Psychiatric Residency
- Pages:1149–1154
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1149
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The advent of social and community psychiatry constitutes a compelling reason for systematically presenting the basic and applied sciences underlying these areas to psychiatric residents. The State University of New York's Upstate Medical Center has ...
February 1970
Psychiatry and Medical Education From the Vantage Point of 45 Years
- Pages:1155–1157
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February 1970
The Validity of the Polygraph with Hypnotically Induced Repression and Guilt
- Pages:1159–1162
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1159
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The authors tested the polygraph's validity by hypnotically inducing repression and guilt in six subjects. They conclude that an individual who has committed a crime may repress this experience sufficiently to pass the polygraph test, while an anxious ...
February 1970
Mandatory Group Therapy for Exhibitionists
- Pages:1162–1167
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1162
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The authors describe a program of group therapy for men arrested for exhibitionism. The program was based on three factors: mandatory attendance, common patient goals and symptoms, and male and female co-therapists. The thesis is that external pressure is ...
February 1970
The Role of Familial Factors in Persistent Effeminate Behavior in Boys
- Pages:1167–1170
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1167
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The author describes a study of the familial environment of 25 young effeminate boys. In most cases the parents' relationship with each other and with the sons was good. The boys' closeness to their mothers and distance from their fathers appeared to ...
February 1970
The Koro Pattern of Depersonalization in an American Schizophrenic Patient
- Pages:1171–1173
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1171
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The author distinguishes the "koro pattern of depersonalization" from "koro," the folk illness. The former is probably universal in its distribution and more common than generally supposed; an example in an American schizophrenic is described. The ...
February 1970
The Logic of ESP
- Pages:1173–1177
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.8.1173
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The authors place extrasensory perception (ESP) in the field of psychology, using as a basis the possibility that ESP, like thought itself, is an emergent quality of brain tissue. While they describe the unscientific atmosphere surrounding these phenomena,...
February 1970
Borderline Patients' Reactions to Attention
- Pages:1182-a–1183
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February 1970
The Importance of Counterirritation in Trichotillomania
- Pages:1184–1185
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February 1970
Position Statement onCrisis in Child Mental Health: Challenge for the 1970's, the Final Report of the Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children
- Pages:1197–1203
- Published Online:1 April 2006