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Volume 126, Issue 9

March 1970

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March 1970

Neurophysiological Correlates of the Intellectual Function of Elderly Persons Living in the Community

H. SHAN WANG,
WALTER D. OBRIST, and
EWALD W. BUSSE

Pages:1205–1212
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1205

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EEG examinations and cerebral blood flow determinations were carried out in two groups of relatively healthy aged community volunteers who participated in a longitudinal study. Intellectual function, as assessed by the WAIS, was correlated with these ...

March 1970

Sleep Disturbance in Acute Schizophrenic Patients

DAVID J. KUPFER,
RICHARD J. WYATT,
JIMMY SCOTT, and
FREDERICK SNYDER

Pages:1213–1223
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1213

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Sleep patterns were studied longitudinally in six acute schizophrenic patients throughout most of their hospital stays, ranging from 25 to 224 consecutive nights, and the data were compared with those from 15 normal control subjects. The sleep patterns of ...

March 1970

Evaluation of Therapeutic Abortion as an Element of Preventive Psychiatry

H. G. WHITTINGTON

Pages:1224–1229
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1224

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The majority of 31 women who were surveyed after having therapeutic abortions reported that they felt content and mentally healthy. But since no studies predict which women with unwanted pregnancies might become mentally ill if abortion is denied, the ...

March 1970

Psychiatric Experience with a Liberalized Therapeutic Abortion Law

LEON MARDER

Pages:1230–1236
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1230

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The author reviews the experience of a California hospital with 147 patients treated under a liberalized therapeutic abortion law. Concern and proper care for these patients minimized the development of guilt, remorse, and depression; they generally ...

March 1970

Cancer, Emotions, and Nurses

SAMUEL C. KLAGSBRUN

Pages:1237–1244
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1237

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The author describes a psychiatric consultation program in a cancer research unit. First the nurses were helped to handle their feelings in regard to terminally ill patients. Later an experiment in self-care by the patients was undertaken; it improved the ...

March 1970

Kidney Donors — The Myth of Informed Consent

CARL H. FELLNER, and
JOHN R. MARSHALL

Pages:1245–1251
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1245

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Three systems are operative in the selection of a living, genetically related, kidney donor: the self-selection of the volunteers, the medical team selection for the best match, and a family system that operates chiefly by excluding certain members from ...

March 1970

The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

CRAWFORD C. MARTIN

Pages:1252–1255
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1252

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Recent advances in the use of human organs and tissue in medical research and therapy have dramatized the need for legal guidelines to achieve a balance between the expectations of society and individual rights in this area. The author describes the ...

March 1970

A Cyclazocine Typology in Opiate Dependence

RICHARD B. RESNICK,
MAX FINK, and
ALFRED M. FREEDMAN

Pages:1256–1260
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1256

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The authors present a typological classification useful in the therapy of opiate dependence based on patients' self-ratings of their need for opiates. Fourteen male subjects on cyclazocine treatment for up to two and one-half years reported less ...

March 1970

Effect of Prenatal Drugs on the Behavior of the Neonate

T. BERRY BRAZELTON

Pages:1261–1266
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1261

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The author outlines some of the intrauterine influences on neonatal behavior. Sex hormones used therapeutically in pregnancy may critically alter the genotype's sexual expression as well as its behavior. Dietary inadequacy in early fetal life may change ...

March 1970

Patterns of Utilization in Partial Hospitalization

ALLAN BEIGEL, and
SAMUEL L. FEDER

Pages:1267–1274
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1267

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A sample of 176 patients admitted to a day and night hospital was studied in an attempt to identify factors predictive of complete utilization of a partial hospitalization program and to relate these specifically to the way in which such programs are now ...

March 1970

The Treatment of Alcoholism in a Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center

WILLIAM T. HART

Pages:1275–1281
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1275

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The author believes that alcoholism is an emotional illness and should be treated like any other emotional illness. At present, prejudice toward the alcoholic often hides this fact and hinders his care. After outlining psychotherapeutic strategies and the ...

March 1970

An Experimental Approach to Dreams and Telepathy: II. Report of Three Studies

MONTAGUE ULLMAN, and
STANLEY KRIPPNER

Pages:1282–1289
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1282

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Three studies were designed to investigate telepathic effects in REM sleep. On each night a target (art print) was randomly selected by an agent who spent the night in a distant room attempting to telepathically influence the subject's dreams, which were ...

March 1970

Nicotinic Acid Side Effects and Toxicity: A Review

LOREN R. MOSHER

Pages:1290–1296
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1290

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The author reviews the literature on the possible toxicity of nicotinic acid, whose therapeutic value in the treatment of schizophrenia is still in dispute. While the drug appears to be relatively harmless, caution in prescribing it is advised, especially ...

March 1970

Changes of Command

F. J. B.

Pages:1297–1298
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1297

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March 1970

Psychosomatic Medicine—Future Directions

PETER F. REGAN

Pages:1298–1299
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1298

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March 1970

Abortion in America

HAROLD ROSEN

Pages:1299–1301
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1299

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March 1970

Psychiatric Malpractice: A Regional Incidence Study

PAUL FREDRIC SLAWSON

Pages:1302–1305
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1302

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Systematic studies of psychiatric malpractice are scarce. Defendant psychiatrists try to avoid publicity, and many cases escape notice. A survey of psychiatric malpractice claims in southern California between 1958 and 1967 showed no increase in claims ...

March 1970

A Double-Blind Comparison of Lithium and Chlorpromazine in the Treatment of Manic States

GOTTFRIED SPRING,
DANIEL SCHWEID,
CARL GRAY,
JOEL STEINBERG, and
MARC HORWITZ

Pages:1306–1310
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1306

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Lithium, at a dosage of 1,800 mg. daily, was found to be effective in the treatment of acute manic states. However, when compared with chlorpromazine by means of a double-blind technique using stringent diagnostic criteria, no significant difference ...

March 1970

Toward Removing the Barricade to Psychiatric Clinic Availability

ROBERT T. CORNEY, and
WILLIAM H. GREY

Pages:1310–1314
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1310

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Screening evaluation, allowing the clinic patient ready access to the psychiatrist and to treatment, proved useful at the University of Virginia Hospital mental health clinic and seemed an adequate first experience for patients. It eliminated the waiting ...

March 1970

Mephentermine Psychosis: Misuse of the Wyamine Inhaler

B. M. ANGRIST,
J. W. SCHWEITZER,
S. GERSHON, and
A. J. FRIEDHOFF

Pages:1315–1317
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1315

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The authors present case reports of three patients with similar pathology in their social, vocational, and sexual adjustment who developed paranoid or paranoid hallucinatory syndromes in conjunction with the abuse of mephentermine from Wyamine inhalers. ...

March 1970

Determining Factors in Migration and Adaptation of Mexican Psychiatrists to the United States: A Mexican Viewpoint

GUIDO BELSASSO,
LUIS LARA TAPIA, and
HÉCTOR LARA TAPIA

Pages:1318–1321
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1318

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The authors discuss their study of the 100 Mexican psychiatrists who have trained in the United States; only 46 have returned to Mexico. Factors in their failures to return include the greater financial and professional opportunities outside Mexico, poor ...

March 1970

Consultation or Direct Service?

CHARLES J. RABINER,
SEYMOUR SILVERBERG,
JOHN W. GALVIN, and
LEON D. HANKOFF

Pages:1321–1325
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1321

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The authors discuss their attempt to establish a community psychiatry program with an emphasis not on direct services but on consultation to administrative personnel of existing agencies. They present their problems with the community and conclude that ...

March 1970

Wladimir G. Eliasberg 1887-1969

IAGO GALDSTON

Page:1326
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1326

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March 1970

Political "Patients" in the Soviet Union

Page:1327
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1327

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March 1970

The Role of the Psychiatrist in Treating Divorce Cases

SUSANNA E. BEDELL

Page:1328
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1328

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March 1970

Dr. Whitaker Replies

CARL A. WHITAKER

Pages:1328-a–1329
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1328-a

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March 1970

Eponymic Nomenclature—A Step Backward

ROBERT M. EDWARDS

Pages:1329–1330
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1329

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March 1970

Healthy Scepticism

DAVID T. LYKKEN

Page:1330
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1330

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March 1970

SUZANNE LOEBL

Pages:1330-a–1331
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1330-a

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March 1970

The Importance of Sexuality

H. E. MCGREW

Page:1331
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1331

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March 1970

Pages:1332–1344
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1332

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March 1970

1970 Annual Meeting Preliminary Program

Pages:1345–1388
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.9.1345

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