American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 123, Issue 8
February 1967
Article
February 1967
Diagnosis and Management of Depressant Drug Dependence
- Pages:909–917
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.909
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Patients who are dependent on a depressant drug, or combinations of them, are being seen quite regularly in hospital psychiatric practice. After discussing epidemiology, etiology, and diagnosis, the authors emphasize the importance of differentiating ...
February 1967
An Analysis of Suicide at a Training Center
- Pages:918–925
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.918
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A retrospectiee analysis is reported of 32 cases of suicide. Six patients who were in psychotherapy at the time of suicide are described in detail. A psychodynamic formulation of the clinical data suggests that transference hostility and dependency ...
February 1967
Automation of Behavioral Observations on Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients
- Pages:926–929
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.926
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The authors describe a computerized nursing observation reporting system that records moment-to-moment patient behavior in a more objectively accurate, condensed, and accessible manner than has previously been possible. Since a basic goal of therapy is to ...
February 1967
Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry for the Nonpsychiatric Physician: Recruitment
- Pages:930–937
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.930
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Recruiting the nonpsychiatrist for postgraduate courses in psychiatry has been a major problem. Although feeling the need for appreciating the role of emotional factors in all illness, the nonpsychiatrist has not felt that postgraduate courses in ...
February 1967
Visual Imagery and Cognitive Organization
- Pages:938–946
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.938
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Pictorial cognition is one of many forms of thinking in nonverbal representations. The author describes the kinds of visual imagery and the circumstances of their occurrence and enhancement, and considers the relevant problems of reality testing, content, ...
February 1967
Clinical and Biochemical Studies of Families of Schizophrenic Patients
- Pages:947–952
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.947
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Previous studies from the Lafayette Clinic have reported a protein factor, identified by the L/P ratio, found in significantly greater concentration in the plasma of chronic schizophrenic patients than in that of some control subjects. Other schizophrenic ...
February 1967
Cerebrospinal Fluid Glycoproteins in Schizophrenia
- Pages:952–962
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.952
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A double-blind clinical and chemical study of 131 hospitalized psychotic patients, totally removed geographically from the center at which chemical analyses were performed, demonstrated an inverse relationship between the quantity of cerebrospinal fluid ...
February 1967
Studies of the Therapist's Role in the Treatment of the Schizophrenic Patient
- Pages:963–971
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.963
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The relationship between the personality of the physician and that of the patient in determining the outcome of psychotherapy has been of interest to many investigators. Primary attention in this paper is paid to studies designed to identify qualities in ...
February 1967
Perceptual Disorders in Schizophrenia
- Pages:971–976
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.971
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Schizophrenia may involve a perceptual distortion characterized by an ontogenetically more primitive mode of perception in which parts of a whole are seen as separate and unrelated. In this study of perceptual distortion among four groups of patients, ...
February 1967
Depression in Acute Schizophrenic Psychosis
- Pages:976–979
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.976
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In this study of 36 schizophrenic patients, conventional antidepressant therapies did not result in a clinically observable lifting of depression among those patients who were seriously depressed in the hospital after acute psychotic symptoms had been ...
February 1967
The Mecholyl Test in Schizophrenia
- Pages:979–985
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.979
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Reports in the literature on the Mecholyl test suggest that schizophrenics with a marked reaction to Mecholyl tend to be acute cases with good prognoses, demonstrating relatively good adjustment both preceding and during the psychosis. Schizophrenics with ...
February 1967
One Year After Discharge: Community Adjustment of Schizophrenic Patients
- Pages:986–995
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.986
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From a group of 299 schizophrenic patients discharged after a study of short-term drug action, 254 were living in the community a year following initial discharge from the hospital. These expatients were evaluated to assess their community adjustment and ...
February 1967
Bleuler's Concept of Schizophrenia: A Confusing Heritage
- Pages:996–1001
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.996
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In his work on schizophrenia, Eugen Bleuler attempted to reconcile contemporary psychiatric and psychoanalytic ideas. He found intrapsychic complexes, as described by Freud, at the root of the schizophrenic symptomatology and searched for a theory by ...
February 1967
The Psychiatrist as Commentator on Acts of Violence
- Pages:1002–1003
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February 1967
A Clinical Technique Using Hg197 for Determining the Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Barrier: A Preliminary Report
- Pages:1005–1007
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.1005
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Five psychiatric patients were given one millicurie of Hg197 intravenously; following this, lumbar and venous punctures were performed. The data suggest that Hg197 passes the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier. As indicated by this study and by the ...
February 1967
The Postaccident Anxiety Syndrome: Psychosocial Aspects
- Pages:1008–1012
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February 1967
On the Need for Interprofessional Collaboration: Psychiatry and Architecture
- Pages:1013–1018
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.1013
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This paper has emphasized the need for collaboration between psychiatry and architecture. It has put forth proposals designed for the purpose of implementing new approaches to the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of persons with mental disorders. ...
February 1967
A Clinical Comparison of Disulfiram and Calcium Carbimide
- Pages:1018–1022
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February 1967
Perphenazine Therapy Among Outpatients
- Pages:1023–1025
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.1023
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During its seven years of use at Mississippi State Hospital, perphenazine has been very effective in treating acutely ill patients and as maintenance therapy in nonhospitalized patients. No attempt was made to compare perphenazine with other ...
February 1967
Kleine-Levin Syndrome: Report of a Case
- Pages:1025–1026
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.1025
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A case of Kleine-Levin syndrome is presented. Despite limited evidence that dynamic factors may have played a role in the onset of the illness, no etiologic basis was found and no conclusions were possible.
February 1967
An Oedipal Conflict Observed In Statu Nascendi
- Pages:1027–1028
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February 1967
The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Pages:1032–1033
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