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Volume 124, Issue 7

January 1968

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January 1968

Legal Problems in Psychiatric Drug Prescription

WILLIAM S. APPLETON

Pages:877–882
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.877

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Psychopharmacology is a relatively new treatment modality, and little legal precedent directly applicable to drug use in the office practice of psychotherapy exists. Because of growing concern among psychiatrists about legal risks in prescribing drugs, ...

January 1968

The Epidemiology of Depression—A Review

CHARLOTTE SILVERMAN

Pages:883–891
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.883

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In community surveys reviewed in this article, prevalence rates for depression are under one per 1,000 population for depressive psychoses and two or three times that for depressive neuroses. Depressives are regarded in clinical practice as a high-risk ...

January 1968

The Use of Medical Sociology on a Psychiatric Service: Research and Application

EMILY MUMFORD

Pages:892–899
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.892

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Active exchange between theory, research, and application provides a rich environment for creative advances in sociology as well as in medicine. Medical sociology—a relatively new specialty within the social sciences—promises to contribute much to ...

January 1968

Short-Term Improvement in Schizophrenia: The Contribution of Background Factors

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY RESEARCH BRANCH COLLABORATIVE STUDY GROUP

Pages:900–909
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.900

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Three categories of background factors were found to predict short-term improvement (symptom reduction) in schizophrenic patients receiving either placebo or one of three phenothiazines: general predictors, which applied equally to all treatments; ...

January 1968

The Impact of Medicare on Psychiatry

WENDELL R. LIPSCOMB

Pages:910–916
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.910

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Medicare is having a tremendous impact on psychiatry and the rest of medicine. The author feels that the restrictions on psychiatric coverage in this law, rather than being a handicap, should serve as a challenge to the profession to modify existing ...

January 1968

A Long-Acting Phenothiazine as a Possible Agent to Control Deviant Sexual Behavior

A. A. BARTHOLOMEW

Pages:917–923
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.917

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Various techniques have been tried in an endeavor to control deviant sexual drive. This paper presents the results obtained using a long-acting phenothiazine given intramuscularly and working on a depot basis, the theoretical advantages being a lesser ...

January 1968

A Psychiatric Emergency Service and Some Treatment Concepts

WARREN B. MILLER

Pages:924–933
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.924

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The author describes the operations of a psychiatric emergency service in a university hospital during a six-month period. He discusses the importance of the social environment in both the development and the therapeutic resolution of a psychiatric ...

January 1968

"Who Goes There?"—A Critical Evaluation of Admissions to a Psychiatric Day Hospital

GERARD E. HOGARTY,
HELEN DENNIS,
WILLIAM GUY, and
GERTRUDE M. GROSS

Pages:934–944
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.934

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Day hospitalization has been cited as a means of circumventing inpatient confinement. This would imply, however, that day hospital patients are representative of inpatient admissions. Comparing Baltimore Psychiatric Day Center patients with other patient ...

January 1968

Some Aspects of the Relationship of the Urban Pediatric Hospital to Community Mental Health Programs

DEXTER M. BULLARD

Pages:944–949
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.944

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The expanded role of the urban pediatric hospital in the delivery of comprehensive medical care has been accompanied by increasing referrals of patients with social and emotional problems. In the treatment of these patients the "mecca" philosophy of the ...

January 1968

Reactions of Adolescents to Short-Term Hospitalization

SANDER M. ABEND,
HYMAN KACHALSKY, and
HARVEY H. GREENBERG

Pages:949–954
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.949

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The authors present their observations of adolescents hospitalized on a short-term psychiatric ward over a four-year period. Three stages of adjustment are identified in the course of hospitalization, reflecting a gradual formation and dissolution of a ...

January 1968

Alternatives to State Hospitalization for the Geriatric Mentally Ill

LEON J. EPSTEIN, and
ALEXANDER SIMON

Pages:955–961
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.955

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Three years ago a geriatric screening unit was established in San Francisco to reduce state hospital commitments of elderly psychiatric patients by utilizing alternative community resources. In the present study the authors examined one year later the ...

January 1968

The Liability of Psychiatric Hospitals for the Acts of Their Patients

GILBERT GARCETTI, and
JOHN M. SUAREZ

Pages:961–968
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.961

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The authors are concerned with the possible liability of public and private hospitals for the acts of their mental patients. In most jurisdictions, the hospitals' duty of care is imposed by case law. There are certain hospitals controlled by a political ...

January 1968

Greetings and Card of Thanks, 1968

F. J. B.

Pages:969–971
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.969

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January 1968

The Role of the Hospital in the Helping System

BERTRAM S. BROWN

Pages:972–973
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.972

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January 1968

Operation Baxstrom After One Year

ROBERT C. HUNT, and
E. DAVID WILEY

Pages:974–978
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.974

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A decision of the U. S. Supreme Court resulted in the movement of 969 "insane criminals" and "criminally insane" persons from, the hospitals of the New York State Department of Correction to the civil state hospitals of the Department of Mental Hygiene ...

January 1968

Phenothiazines and Diabetes in Hospitalized Women

ERNST THONNARD-NEUMANN

Pages:978–982
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.978

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Between 1955 and 1966 the prevalence of diabetes among hospitalized psychotic women patients rose from 4.2 to 17.2 percent. The increase followed the introduction of chlorpromazine therapy in 1954. About every fourth patient who had been treated for one ...

January 1968

A Preliminary Evaluation of Magnesium Pemoline in Chronic Schizophrenic Patients

M. P. BISHOP,
D. M. GALLANT, and
R. D. THOMPSON

Pages:982–986
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.982

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Magnesium pemoline was investigated for its possible beneficial effects upon intellective and memory functioning and clinical psychiatric status of chronic schizophrenic patients. Sixteen patients received magnesium pemoline for eight weeks in dosages ...

January 1968

Psychiatric Attitudes of Young Physicians: Implications for Teaching

G. J. TUCKER, and
R. F. REINHARDT

Pages:986–991
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.986

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Over a two-year period 219 physicians were studied with respect to their attitudes toward psychiatry. From the large amount of data three specifics are highlighted: 1) In this young physician population of diverse origin and medical training, the over-all ...

January 1968

Thioridazine-Induced Inhibition of Masturbatory Ejaculation in an Adolescent

HARVEY R. GREENBERG, and
CARLOS CARRILLO

Pages:991–993
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.991

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A case of ejaculatory inhibition during masturbation in an adolescent male treated with thioridazine is reported. Noteworthy is the fact that the patient waited almost a month before revealing the symptom to his physician, unlike the cases involving ...

January 1968

Psychiatry and the Teen-Age Rebellion

RICHARD E. TROY

Pages:994–995
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.994

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January 1968

Tradition Versus the Space Age

WILLARD J. HENDRICKSON

Page:995
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.995

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January 1968

Dr. Ruesch's Reply

JURGEN RUESCH

Pages:995-a–997
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.995-a

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January 1968

Russia and United States—Differences in Psychiatric Attitudes

BRYANT WEDGE

Page:997
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.997

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January 1968

Sex Reassignment Surgery

RICHARD GREEN

Pages:997-a–998
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.997-a

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January 1968

Dr. Ellis Comments on a Review of His Book

NORMAN R. ELLIS

Pages:998–999
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.998

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January 1968

Psychotic Reaction to Penicillin

SANFORD JACOBSON

Page:999
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.999

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January 1968

Pages:1000–1010
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.1000

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January 1968

President's Message: Revision of the APA Constitution

HENRY W. BROSIN

Pages:1011–1012
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.1011

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January 1968

Dedication Speech

HENRY W. BROSIN

Pages:1012–1014
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.1012

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January 1968

Position Statement on Confidentiality and Privilege with Special Reference to Psychiatric Patients

Pages:1015–1016
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.1015

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This statement was approved by the Council of the American Psychiatric Association in December 1966 upon recommendation of the Association's Committee on Ethics. The Judicial Council of the American Medical Association has agreed "that the statements ...

January 1968

The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Pages:1017–1018
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.1017

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