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Volume 131, Issue 5

May 1974

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May 1974

Psychoanalysis and Behavior Therapy

LEE BIRK, and
$$Word$$ W. BRINKLEY-BIRK

Pages:499–510
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.499

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Psychoanalysis and behavior therapy developed within separate, contrasting, and seeminingly incompatible scientific/epistemological traditions. Psychoanalysis was founded by clinicians who were trying to "make sense of" introspective self-report data, ...

May 1974

The Effects of Cocaine on Depressed Patients

ROBERT M. POST,
JOEL KOTIN, and
FREDERICK K. GOODWIN

Pages:511–517
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.511

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Cocaine, administered orally to patients with endogenous depressive illness, did not consistently affect vital signs or depressive symptomatology, but it did decrease rapid eye movement sleep and total sleep time. When administered intravenously in the ...

May 1974

The Hysterical Personality in Men

PAUL V. LUISADA,
ROGER PEELE, and
ELIZABETH A. PITTARD

Pages:518–522
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.518

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The authors studied case records of 27 men who had been diagnosed as having hysterical personality, although they note that the current literature assumes that the diagnosis of hysterical personality applies predominantly to women. They believe that not ...

May 1974

Can the Computer Assist Clinicians in Psychiatric Diagnosis?

ROBERT L. SPITZER, and
JEAN ENDICOTT

Pages:523–530
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.523

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When 100 patients were evaluated by a therapist, DIAGNO III (a computer program for psychiatric diagnosis), and the senior author, the computer's and therapist's diagnoses were in agreement in 65 cases; the senior author's diagnoses agreed with the ...

May 1974

CAPS: An Automated Evaluation System

RICHARD C. EVENSON,
IVAN W. SLETTEN,
JAMES L. HEDLUND, and
DAVID M. FAINTICH

Pages:531–534
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.531

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The Community Adjustment Profile System (CAPS) compares a patient's community adjustment prior to treatment with his adjustment after treatment, using a statewide computerized information system. Ten areas of community adjustment are measured by 60 items ...

May 1974

The Use of Structural Family Therapy in the Treatment of Intractable Asthma

RONALD LIEBMAN,
SALVADOR MINUCHIN, and
LESTER BAKER

Pages:535–540
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.535

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The authors identify characteristics of family organization and functioning associated with psychosomatic illness in children—specifically chronic, severe, relapsing asthma—and report on a successful therapeutic approach designed to change these family ...

May 1974

New Life: Person or Property?

LEILA OBIER SCHROEDER

Pages:541–544
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.541

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Medical science is on the threshold of creating human life through other than traditional reproductive methods. The legal problems associated with cloning, the use of a host mother, or the growth of a fetus in an artificial placenta have not been solved. ...

May 1974

Heroin Addiction Trends

MARK H. GREENE, and
ROBERT L. DUPONT

Pages:545–550
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.545

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Systematic observations made in Washington. D.C., documented the epidemic spread of heroin use and its subsequent decline. Major indicators supporting the contention of reduced heroin use include: 1) a stable year of peak heroin use among all treatment ...

May 1974

Effects of Coresidential Living on the Attitudes, Self-Image, and Role Expectations of College Women

ELIZABETH AUB REID

Pages:551–554
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.551

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The author interviewed matched groups of college women to study the effects on women of coresidential dormitory life. As compared to those in all-women's dormitories, women in the coresidential setting were found to have more satisfying relationships with ...

May 1974

The Psychiatric Consultant as a Change Agent in the Community

MARTIN C. NALDER,
CARLO A. WEBER, and
ARETA CROWELL

Pages:555–558
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.555

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As the field of social and community psychiatry continues to expand, psychiatrists are obliged to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on matters of directing and implementing change. The authors describe the role of the psychiatrist as an active ...

May 1974

Drug Abuse and the Emergency Room Physician

DAVID J. GREENBLATT, and
RICHARD I. SHADER

Pages:559–562
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.559

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Physicians staffing emergency treatment facilities seldom are required to make hasty judgments regarding pharmacotherapy of drug abuse. Unnecessary morbidity frequently results from the use of barbiturates and major tranquilizers in the emergency room. ...

May 1974

Psychiatric Consultation to a Filipino Community in Hawaii

BENJAMIN B. C. YOUNG, and
J. DAVID KINZIE

Pages:563–566
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.563

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The authors describe a predominantly Filipino village in Hawaii that underwent drastic economic and social changes without disintegrating. They conclude that with the right ingredients of leadership, community planning organizations, and a sense of ...

May 1974

The Epidemiology of Schizophrenia in Papua New Guinea

E. FULLER TORREY,
BARBARA B. TORREY, and
BURTON G. BURTON-BRADLEY

Pages:567–573
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.567

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The epidemiology of 478 cases of schizophrenia, acute psychosis, and manic-depressive psychosis was examined in Papua New Guinea for the years 1970 through 1973. Factors such as bias, referral habits of doctors, community tolerance, disease, accessibility ...

May 1974

Community Psychiatry in Malaysia

J. D. KINZIE,
J. I. TEOH, and
E. S. TAN

Pages:573–577
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.573

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This report traces the first year's experience in community psychiatry in a developing country. Malaysia, where a group of psychiatrists decided to offer their services as consultants to community caregivers, including doctors, teachers, police, the ...

May 1974

Japanese Enterprise and American Middle-Class Values

JOE YAMAMOTO, and
MAMORU IGA

Pages:577–579
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.577

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By showing how the value orientation of the Japanese-American minority population in the United States has successfully related to the Protestant ethic of the American middle class, the authors hope to identify factors that promote the social integration ...

May 1974

Social and Psychological Aspects of Verbal Behavior in Japanese-Americans

FRANK A. JOHNSON,
ANTHONY J. MARSELLA, and
COLLEEN L. JOHNSON

Pages:580–583
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.580

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The authors discuss the verbal behavior patterns of English-speaking Japanese-Americans living in Hawaii in terms of four cultural themes of Meiji-era Japan: 1) a strong sense of gender differences, 2) a concern for hierarchy and status, 3) an emphasis ...

May 1974

Brief Therapy of Conversion Reactions: An In-Hospital Technique

RICHARD A. DICKES

Pages:584–586
Published Online:9 March 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.584

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This paper describes a treatment method for conversion phenomena, reactions that present special technical difficulties. The strategy focuses the patient's attention on the fact that his symptoms are psychologically motivated and reduces opportunity for ...

May 1974

Outpatient Treatment of Hyperactive School Children with Imipramine

JONAS WAIZER,
STANLEY P. HOFFMAN,
POLIZOES POLIZOS, and
DAVID M. ENGELHARDT

Pages:587–591
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.587

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Nineteen hyperactive school children were treated in an outpatient clinic with imipramine for eight weeks, followed by four weeks of placebo. On the basis of ratings by a child psychiatrist, parents, and teachers, significant improvement was observed in ...

May 1974

Chlormezanone in Anxiety : A Drug Rediscovered?

KARL RICKELS,
JORGE A. PEREIRA-OGAN,
W. GEORGE CASE,
IRMA CSANALOSI,
MERRILL J. MIRMAN,
JULIET E. NATHANSON, and
LAWRENCE C. PARISH

Pages:592–595
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.592

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The efficacy of chlormezanone, an infrequently prescribed minor tranquilizer, was tested in a six-week double-blind trial involving 154 anxious outpatients. The results showed that chlormezanone (800 mg./day) was significantly more effective than placebo ...

May 1974

High-Dose Cyclazocine Therapy of Opiate Dependence

RICHARD RESNICK,
MAX FINK, and
ALFRED M. FREEDMAN

Pages:595–597
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.595

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Twenty-three former heroin addicts who had been stabilized on 4 to 5 mg. of cyclazocine per day had their dossage increased to 10 to 30 mg. per day. These increases resulted in mild, transient side effects. The narcotic-blocking activity of cyclazocine ...

May 1974

The Quality of Treatment for Drug Abuse

FREDERICK B. GLASER,
FREDA ADLER,
ARTHUR D. MOFFETT, and
JOHN C. BALL

Pages:598–601
Published Online:9 March 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.598

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In this preliminary study, less than one-third of the treatment programs for drug abusers and narcotic addicts in Pennsylvania were rated as satisfactory. Therapeutic community programs were rated significantly higher than other programs. The authors cite ...

May 1974

Community Psychiatry at UCLA : A Decade of Training

MARVIN KARNO,
JOHN G. KENNEDY, and
SANDRA LIPSCHULTZ

Pages:601–604
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.601

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The community psychiatry training program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a two-year postresidency program leading to a Master of Social Psychiatry degree, has been in existence for more than ten years. The authors describe the ...

May 1974

Lawrence S. Kubie 1896-1973

LEO H. BARTEMEIER

Page:605
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.605

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May 1974

On Communicating with Russian Psychiatrists

JEROME KAVKA

Page:606
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.606

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May 1974

The Myth of Voluntary Therapy

RICHARD R. PARLOUR

Pages:606-a–606
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.606-a

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May 1974

Adler's Views on Early Childhood Illness and Outcome

HEINZ L. ANSBACHER

Pages:606-b–607
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.606-b

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May 1974

More on Homebound Geriatric Care

D. PETER BIRKETT

Page:607
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.607

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May 1974

Benactyzine and Marijuana

RICHARD J. ALEXANDER

Pages:607-a–607
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.607-a

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May 1974

Follow-Up on Leprosy and Psychosis

PAUL LOWINGER

Pages:607-b–607
Published Online:9 March 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.607-b

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May 1974

Asthma and Paranoia

STEPHEN KERN

Pages:607-c–608
Published Online:9 March 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.607-c

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May 1974

Historical Note on Hypnosis and Surgery

JEROME M. SCHNECK

Page:608
Published Online:9 March 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.608

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May 1974

Sex Differences in Growth Hormone Response

WALTER A. BROWN

Pages:608-a–608
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.608-a

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May 1974

Dr. Sachar Replies

EDWARD J. SACHAR

Pages:608-b–609
Published Online:9 March 2015

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.608-b

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May 1974

Schizophrenia: A Proposal for Nomenclature

MARTIN BLINDER

Page:609
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.609

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May 1974

Chemical Toxicity and Mental Disorder

CHARLOTTE C. TAYLOR

Pages:609-a–609
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.609-a

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May 1974

Existential Encounter with the Patient

J. D. ADAMSON

Pages:609-b–610
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.609-b

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May 1974

A Plaudit for the Journal

MEYER SOLOMON

Page:610
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.610

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May 1974

Pages:610-a–610
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.610-a

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In A. L. Halpern's letter to the editor "Involuntary Commitment in Wisconsin" (February 1974 issue, page 229), the reference to the APA Position Statement on Involuntary Hospitalizaton of the Mentally Ill (Revised) (1) was incorrectly cited (by our error) ...

May 1974

Pages:611–622
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.5.611

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