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Volume 124, Issue 12

June 1968

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June 1968

A Guide to the American Psychiatric Association's New Diagnostic Nomenclature

ROBERT L. SPITZER, and
PAUL T. WILSON

Pages:1619–1629
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1619

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The new diagnostic nomenclature, which will become official on July 1, represents a significant advance toward the use of a standard international classification system to facilitate the exchange of ideas among psychiatrists of all countries. The ways in ...

June 1968

The Present Status of Psychiatric Theory

SILVANO ARIETI

Pages:1630–1639
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1630

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In reviewing some contemporary issues in psychiatric theory, the author concludes that the mind-body split remains as an unsolved problem and a focus of discomfort for theoreticians. He feels that while many concepts of classic and neo-Freudian ...

June 1968

The Relationship Between Antigammaglobulin Activity and Depression

SEYMOUR ROSENBLATT,
IRWIN ORESKES,
HERBERT MEADOW, and
HARRY SPIERA

Pages:1640–1644
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1640

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Measurements of rheumatoid factor were done on the sera of 86 patients consecutively admitted to an acute psychiatric service. Sixty-three percent of those with endogenous depressions and 35 percent of those with schizophrenia had positive titers. When ...

June 1968

Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy in Chronic Schizophrenia

LESTER GRINSPOON,
JACK R. EWALT, and
RICHARD SHADER

Pages:1645–1652
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1645

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The relative merits of psychotherapy alone and psychotherapy in conjunction with phenothiazine therapy were investigated in the treatment of 20 chronic schizophrenic patients. Psychotherapy alone produced no demonstrable change over a two-year period in ...

June 1968

Can a Biological Force Contribute to Gender Identity?

HOWARD J. BAKER, and
ROBERT J. STOLLER

Pages:1653–1658
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1653

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The authors describe six persons who were raised as members of their assigned sex but who felt that they belonged to the opposite sex. At puberty all developed some sort of cross-sex change, in effect confirming their earliest gender wishes. A possible ...

June 1968

Medical Perspectives on Alcoholism and Around-the-Clock Psychiatric Services

DANA L. FARNSWORTH

Pages:1659–1663
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1659

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Views about alcohol abuse as a moral problem or as a specific diagnostic entity contribute little to the development of realistic preventive techniques. It may be more helpful, the author suggests, to consider the abuse of alcohol as one of many possible ...

June 1968

Social Factors in General Hospital Patient Care

ROBERT STRAUS

Pages:1663–1668
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1663

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Numerous discrepancies are found today between the medically defined goals of general hospitals and the social processes which shape the experiences of hospital patients. These are traced to conflicts between the goals of administrative efficiency and of ...

June 1968

Research in Walk-In Psychiatric Services in General Hospitals

JULES V. COLEMAN

Pages:1668–1673
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1668

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Emergency treatment services in the general hospitals of urban centers have grown spectacularly in recent years, reflecting in effect a medical care vacuum for the slum poor. The medical and psychiatric needs of this population are known to be great, and ...

June 1968

Research in the Alcohol Clinic and Around-the-Clock Psychiatric Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital

MORRIS E. CHAFETZ

Pages:1674–1679
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1674

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New patterns of treatment have been developed at Massachusetts General Hospital for alcoholics and other individuals often regarded as "unmotivated" and "unreachable" by traditional techniques. The crisis which brings the patient to the treatment facility ...

June 1968

Deficits in the Treatment of Alcoholism and Recommendations for Correction

WALTER E. BARTON

Pages:1679–1686
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1679

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Existing treatment resources for the alcoholic patient are woefully inadequate, although there are a few outposts of good treatment. A round-the-clock resources are an exceptional and rare service. A description of some of the existing models of ...

June 1968

Training Predoctoral Social and Behavioral Science Students in Alcoholism Research

EDWARD BLACKER

Pages:1686–1691
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1686

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A training program for research in alcohol problems, sponsored by the Massachusetts division of alcoholism with the cooperation of universities and field settings in the Boston area, is described. Evaluative data collected in a survey of former student ...

June 1968

Suicide Prevention Programs-The Current Scene

ANSON B. HAUGHTON

Pages:1692–1696
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1692

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In less than a year the number of suicide prevention facilities in the United States increased from 47 to 74. A questionnaire survey of 60 of the centers reveals data on the auspices of the centers, the nature of their programs, the costs and volume of ...

June 1968

Alcoholism and the Urban Medical Center

JOHN H. KNOWLES

Pages:1697–1698
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1697

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June 1968

JOHN C. NEMIAH

Pages:1698–1699
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1698

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June 1968

The Need for Evaluation

LEON EISENBERG

Pages:1700–1701
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1700

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June 1968

Lithium in Manic-Depressive Illness

R. J. KERRY, and
G. OWEN

Pages:1702–1705
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1702

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Treatment with lithium carbonate has stabilized a group of patients with long-standing manic-depressive illness. These are patients who have shown large total body water and weight changes and serum sodium changes during the different phases of the ...

June 1968

Coexistence of Adolescent and Adult Hospital Units: Organizational Problems

IVAN FRAS, and
M. ROBERT WILSON

Pages:1706–1709
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1706

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Weekly sessions with the chief resident in child and adolescent psychiatry provided direct communication between medical and paramedical staff in an adolescent psychiatric unit organized within the adult psychiatric ward of a general hospital. These ...

June 1968

Psychotherapy Categories: A Spectrum Approach

CLYDE H. WARD

Pages:1709–1711
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1709

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The increasingly numerous psychotherapy systems may best be ordered by use of a spectrum concept which arrays the therapies in accordance with the relative magnitudes with which they possess common elements. A prototype model is presented using the ...

June 1968

Psychotherapy Research: Inertia, Recruitment, and National Policy

CLYDE H. WARD, and
JOHN C. RICHARDS

Pages:1712–1714
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1712

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The much-attested reluctance of clinicians to join in psychotherapy research was tested by presenting a clinically optimal proposal to 100 of the best qualified therapists in Philadelphia. Extensive interview follow-ups demonstrated a resistance so ...

June 1968

Don D. Jackson 1920-1968

NATHAN W. ACKERMAN

Page:1715
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1715

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June 1968

Life Adjustment of Children of Concentration Camp Survivors

MYRON H. MARSHALL

Page:1716
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1716

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June 1968

Comment on the Advisability of Therapists Conducting Physical Exams

WALTER A. BROWN

Pages:1716-a–1716
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1716-a

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June 1968

Inadequacy of Operant Conditioning Training

ARTHUR D. COLMAN

Pages:1716-b–1717
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1716-b

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June 1968

Dr. Cotter Replies

LLOYD H. COTTER

Page:1717
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1717

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June 1968

Interference of FDA with Practice of Medicine?

JOSEPH J. REAGAN

Pages:1717-a–1718
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1717-a

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June 1968

Pages:1719–1730
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1719

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