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Volume 128, Issue 9

March 1972

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March 1972

Human Violence as Viewed from the Psychiatric Clinic

MARTIN ROTH

Pages:1043–1056
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1043

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Validation for ethological theories about the origins of human violence and aggression may be sought in certain well-studied forms of behavior. Observations in relation to crime and other forms of violent conduct have given unequivocal answers to the ...

March 1972

Family Development in a Changing World

ALICE S. ROSSI

Pages:1057–1066
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1057

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Over the past half century, increased longevity and fertility control have had a marked effect on family structure. Women now devote a smaller proportion of their adult life to the rearing of children; they have also achieved higher levels of education, ...

March 1972

The Function of the Dream: A Reappraisal

ZVI GIORA

Pages:1067–1073
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1067

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The author tests the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler on the function of dreams against the new facts revealed by laboratory research on sleep and dreams. None of these theories is reinforced and many of their components are disproven by the discoveries ...

March 1972

Fantasies of Psychiatric Research

LEONARD JACOBS, and
JOEL KOTIN

Pages:1074–1080
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1074

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The authors describe four fantasy themes encountered on psychiatric research wards and note that there are often painful conflicts of duty when the therapeutic approach and research procedures seem incompatible. They present some examples of the adaptive ...

March 1972

A Critique of Thomas S. Szasz's "Myth of Mental Illness"

STEVEN REISS

Pages:1081–1085
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1081

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Thomas Szasz's position that mental illness is a myth is found by the author to involve the following beliefs: 1) the term "mental illness" is universally defined as a biological disease state; 2) because some similarities exist between the mental health ...

March 1972

A Suicide Prevention Center on an Indian Reservation

JAMES H. SHORE,
JOHN F. BOPP,
THELMA R. WALLER, and
JAMES W. DAWES

Pages:1086–1091
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1086

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The authors describe the background and development of a suicide prevention service on an Indian reservation and emphasize the importance of community acceptance and involvement. Characteristics of the patient population are analyzed; most of the patients ...

March 1972

Competency for Trial: The Making of an Expert

ARTHUR HARRIS ROSENBERG, and
A. LOUIS McGARRY

Pages:1092–1096
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1092

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The authors' four-year examination of the competency for trial issue in Massachusetts suggests that neither the psychiatric nor the legal profession in the state is currently able to deal satisfactorily with the issue. lt is likely that overburdened ...

March 1972

Residency Training Issues in Community Psychiatry

E. MANSELL PATTISON

Pages:1097–1102
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1097

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The integration of training in social and community psychiatry into the basic three-year psychiatric curriculum poses a number of issues on which little agreement has been reached. On the basis of his experiences and observations during the past eight ...

March 1972

The Transition Into Residency

GARY L. TISCHLER

Pages:1103–1107
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1103

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The author describes some of the identity problems the beginning resident faces when making the transition into residency. He then examines in detail the steps involved in role definition: investiture, correction, and achievement. Along with the process ...

March 1972

Physician to Student: The Crisis of Psychiatric Residency Training

JOHN M. SCANLAN

Pages:1107–1111
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1107

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The author describes the experience of psychiatric residency training as a five-stage crisis in role transition involving role shock, orientation, trial and error, integration-consolidation, and recapitulation. He defines the crisis as a process involving ...

March 1972

The Making of a Psychiatrist: The Resident's View of the Process of His Professional Development

CHARLES S. FLECKLES

Pages:1111–1115
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1111

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The author reports his findings from interviews with a class of psychiatric residents. He concludes that for the resident, the role that residency training plays in the process of his professional development is very much a function of the types of ...

March 1972

The Self-Education of Psychiatric Residents

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, and
E. FULLER TORREY

Pages:1116–1121
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1116

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The authors describe a psychiatric educational program in which residents would work together as a self-education "corporation." Faculty members would serve as advisory and teaching consultants to provide individualized education that is consistent with ...

March 1972

The Learning Group

VAMIK D. VOLKAN, and
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Pages:1121–1126
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1121

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The authors describe a group approach to training first-year residents in which direct observation of patient-therapist interaction, seminars with guest experts, and preceptorship methods are combined. In these groups of six to eight residents, meeting ...

March 1972

Mini-Boards: A Means of Evaluating Psychiatric Residents

DAVID E. RASKIN

Pages:1126–1127
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1126

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The evaluation of general psychiatric skills is a different process from the evaluation of psychotherapeutic skills. Mini-boards, similar in format to the certification procedure of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, test the resident's skill ...

March 1972

Training for What?

MORTON F. REISER

Pages:1128–1129
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1128

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March 1972

Psychiatric Training in the 70s—Toward a Shift in Emphasis

DAVID E. RASKIN

Pages:1129–1131
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1129

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March 1972

A Study of Alcoholism in Half Siblings

MARC A. SCHUCKIT,
DONALD A. GOODWIN, and
GEORGE WINOKUR

Pages:1132–1136
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1132

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The authors studied the incidence of alcoholism in children who had an alcoholic biologic parent but who were raised by nonalcoholic parent figures and in children who did not have an alcoholic biologic parent and who were raised by alcoholic parent ...

March 1972

Help Seeking for Family Problems: A Survey of Utilization and Satisfaction

AARON ROSENBLATT, and
JOHN E. MAYER

Pages:1136–1140
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1136

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Women of different races and educational backgrounds were compared to determine their utilization of mental health services and their satisfaction with them. As suspected, the distribution of services is uneven, with white women and women who were more ...

March 1972

Science and Set in Treatment Decisions

MYRON G. SANDIFER

Pages:1140–1145
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1140

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This pilot study attempted to explain why psychiatrists differ in their decisions regarding treatment. Differences over the usage of phenothiazines were best explained by differences in diagnosis; differences in psychotherapy were best explained by the ...

March 1972

Common Approaches to the Measurement of Anxiety

LAWRENCE C. HARTLAGE

Pages:1145–1147
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1145

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Most indexes of anxiety are based on one of four principal techniques; projective estimates, self reports, objective ratings by other persons, and objective behavioral indexes. The author measured 24 adolescents on all four techniques over a three-week ...

March 1972

Treatment of Insomniac Patients with the Air-Fluidized Bed

WILLIAM C. MILLER, and
JAY T. SHURLEY

Pages:1147–1149
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1147

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The authors make a preliminary report on the use of the air-fluidized bed in treating patients with disabling insomnia. They believe the bed helped the majority of their patients by providing a physically comfortable environment, in terms of weight ...

March 1972

Effect of the Administration of Tea on the Excretion of DMPEA

ARNOLD J. FRIEDHOFF,
EMANUEL MELLER, and
JACK W. SCHWEITZER

Pages:1149–1153
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1149

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In order to determine whether or not tea is an exogenous source of DMPEA, the authors studied three normal adult tea drinkers. They analyzed the DMPEA content of the urines and examined the effect of tea and added DMPEA on DMPEA excretion levels. They ...

March 1972

LSD and Prolonged Psychotic Reactions

BARRY LISKOW

Page:1154
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1154

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March 1972

Dr. Muller Replies

DAVID J. MULLER

Pages:1154-a–1155
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1154-a

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March 1972

LSD-Induced Psychosis and Vitamin B₃

A. HOFFER

Page:1155
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1155

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March 1972

Kidney Transplants and Psychological Integration

NORMAN B. LEVY

Pages:1155-a–1156
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1155-a

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March 1972

Methadone Maintenance: Limit Setting

MICHAEL D. PARIS

Page:1156
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1156

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March 1972

Ineffective Personnel

PAT SHEFFER

Pages:1156-a–1157
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1156-a

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March 1972

Cutting the Gordian Knots

MICHAEL ALAN TAYLOR

Page:1157
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1157

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March 1972

On "Catchment Area"

K. C.R. NAIR

Pages:1157-a–1157
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1157-a

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March 1972

Pages:1158–1166
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1158

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March 1972

1972 Annual Meeting Preliminary Program

Pages:1167–1206
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.9.1167

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