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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131, Issue 11

November 1974

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November 1974

MILTON GREENBLATT

Pages:1197–1203
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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

JANE L. GARB, and
ALBERT J. STUNKARD

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

MARDI J. HOROWITZ

Pages:1208–1212
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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

WALTER WEINTRAUB,
GEORGE BALIS, and
JAMES MACKIE

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

NANCY SCHEER, and
GAIL M. BARTON

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

LAURENT S. LEHMANN

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

JOHN P. ALLEN,
DUANE DENNEY,
JOHN W. KENDALL, and
PAUL H. BLACHLY

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

GEORGE KOJAK

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

MARTIN G. ALLEN,
STEPHEN COHEN,
WILLIAM POLLIN, and
STANLEY I. GREENSPAN

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
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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

BERNARD J. ALBAUGH, and
PHILIP O. ANDERSON

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

LINUS PAULING

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

RICHARD JED WYATT

Pages:1258–1262
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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

DONALD F. KLEIN

Pages:1263–1265
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1263

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November 1974

MORRIS A. LIPTON

Pages:1266–1267
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1266

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November 1974

A Tribute to Walter Barton

F. J. B.

Pages:1269–1270
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1269

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November 1974

The Key Conference: APA Looks Ahead

ALFRED M. FREEDMAN

Pages:1270–1272
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1270

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November 1974

Psychiatrists' Responses to Sexual Bias in Pharmaceutical Advertising

CHRISTINE MCREE,
BILLIE F. CORDER, and
THOMAS HAIZLIP

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

JON F. HEISER, and
DONALD E. WILBERT

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

ALLAN KIPPERMAN, and
ERIC W. FINE

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

STEVEN T. KNEE, and
JAVAD RAZANI

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

SHERWYN M. WOODS

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

W. DEREK SHOWS,
W. DOYLE GENTRY, and
LINDA C. WYRICK

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

ROGER K. PITMAN

Page:1289
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1289

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November 1974

More on "Dying with Their Rights On"

EUGENE REVITCH

Pages:1289-a–1290
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1289-a

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November 1974

More on "Dying with Their Rights On"

SETH FIELDING

Page:1290
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1290

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November 1974

Phenothiazines and Breast Cancer

FELIX GOTTLIEB

Pages:1290-a–1290
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1290-a

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November 1974

Ethology, Anthropology, and Psychiatry

A. D. JONAS

Pages:1290-b–1291
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1290-b

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November 1974

Ethical Standards in Psychotherapy

CARL GOLDBERG

Page:1291
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1291

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November 1974

Clorazepate Dipotassium in Tardive Dyskinesia

T. M. ITIL,
C. UNVERDI, and
D. MEHTA

Pages:1291-a–1291
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1291-a

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November 1974

Gestalt Therapy's Potential for Harm

DAVID S. SPRAGUE

Pages:1291-b–1292
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1291-b

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November 1974

Journal Review Procedures

CLARA G. LIVSEY

Page:1292
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1292

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November 1974

The Court and Psychotherapy

DONALD HAYES RUSSELL

Pages:1292-a–1292
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1292-a

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November 1974

The Capgras Syndrome

SANDOR E. BLUM

Pages:1292-b–1292
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1292-b

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November 1974

Assaults by Patients

JOHN R. LION

Pages:1292-c–1292
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1292-c

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November 1974

Pages:1293–1316
Published Online:12 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.11.1293

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