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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 136, Issue 4A

April 1979
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ARTICLES
April 1979
Platelet Monoamine Oxidase Activity in Schizophrenia: A Review of the Data
  • Pages:377–385
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.377

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April 1979
Delirium After Cataract Surgery: Review and Two Cases
  • Pages:386–391
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.386

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April 1979
Adult Mental Health Services in a Health Maintenance Organization
  • Pages:392–395
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.392

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April 1979
A Behavioral Program for the Treatment of Chronic Patients
  • Pages:396–400
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.396

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April 1979
The Impact of Normal Volunteers on a Psychiatric Research Unit
  • Pages:401–405
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.401

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April 1979
Whatever Happened to Psychiatry? The Deprofessionalization of Community Mental Health Centers
  • Pages:406–409
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.406

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April 1979
Plasma Growth Hormone: Effect of Anxiety During Flooding in Vivo
  • Pages:410–414
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.410

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April 1979
Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disturbances in Anorexia Nervosa
  • Pages:415–418
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.415

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April 1979
Perinatal Difficulties, Head and Face Trauma, and Child Abuse in the Medical Histories of Seriously Delinquent Children
  • Pages:419–423
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.419

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April 1979
The Relationship of Early Maternal Separation to Borderline Personality in Children and Adolescents: A Pilot Study
  • Pages:424–426
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.424

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April 1979
The Development of an Acute Short-Term Inpatient Child Psychiatric Setting: A Pediatric-Psychiatric Model
  • Pages:427–429
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.427

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April 1979
Adolescents’ Adjustment to Chronic Hemodialysis
  • Pages:430–433
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.430

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April 1979
Juvenile Firesetters: Do the Agencies Help?
  • Pages:433–435
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.433

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April 1979
The Mini-Mental State Test and Computerized Tomography
  • Pages:436–439
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.436

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April 1979
Urinary Excretion of Dimethyltryptamine in Liver Disease
  • Pages:439–441
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.439

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April 1979
Adjustment of a Group of Vietnamese People to the United States
  • Pages:442–444
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.442

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April 1979
Peer Review of Group Therapy: Washington, D.C., 1972–1977
  • Pages:444–447
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.444

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April 1979
Medicaid Audit: Crisis in Confidentiality and the Patient-Psychiatrist Relationship
  • Pages:447–450
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.447

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April 1979
Excretion of Imipramine and Desipramine in Human Breast Milk
  • Pages:451–452
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.451

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April 1979
Multiple ECT: Morphologic Effects
  • Page:453
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.453

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April 1979
Lithium in Chronic Schizophrenia
  • Pages:454–455
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.454

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April 1979
Group Psychotherapy as an Adjunct to Lithium Maintenance
  • Pages:455–456
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.455

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April 1979
Withdrawal Symptoms After Abrupt Cessation of Amitriptyline in an Eight-Year-Old Boy
  • Pages:457–458
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.457

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April 1979
Chronic Amitriptyline Toxicity
  • Pages:458–459
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.458

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April 1979
Trihexyphenidyl Abuse for Euphorigenic Effect
  • Pages:459–460
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.459

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April 1979
Sleep Architecture in Psychotropic-Induced Somnambulism
  • Page:461
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.461

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April 1979
Dr. Luchins and Associates Reply
  • Page:461
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April 1979
Family Planning for the Mentally III
  • Pages:461–462
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.461b

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April 1979
Imipramine and Delusional Depressions
  • Pages:462–463
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.462

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April 1979
Dr. Quitkin and Associates Reply
  • Page:463
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April 1979
Successful Treatment of Hypertension—Compliance or Marital Therapy?
  • Page:463
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.463a

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April 1979
Dr. Summers Replies
  • Page:464
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.464

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April 1979
More on Trimipramine and Alcohol
  • Page:464
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.464a

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April 1979
More on Bioequivalence of Tricyclics
  • Pages:464–465
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.464b

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April 1979
Double Standards or Different Standards?
  • Page:465
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.465

April 1979
A Quotation Problem
  • Pages:465–466
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.465a

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April 1979
Propranolol in Breast Milk
  • Page:466
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.466

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April 1979
Dysorexia and Self-Mutilation
  • Page:466
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.466a

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April 1979
Heat and Neuroleptics: A Deadly Combination
  • Pages:466–467
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.466b

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April 1979
SSI, the Sick Role, and Economics
  • Page:467
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.467

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April 1979
Drs. Lamb and Rogawski Reply
  • Page:467
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.467a

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April 1979
Eye Size Discrepancy in Schizophrenia
  • Pages:467–468
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.467b

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April 1979
Questioning Combat Neurosis in Teachers
  • Page:468
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.468

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April 1979
Dr. Bloch Replies
  • Page:468
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April 1979
A Festering Sweetness: Poems of the American People, by Robert Coles. Pittsburgh. Pa., University of Pittsburgh Press. 1978, 51 pp., $6.95; $3.95 (paper).
  • Page:469
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.469

April 1979
Social Origins of Depression: A Study of Psychiatric Disorder in Women, by George W. Brown and Tirril Harris. New York. N. Y., Free Press (Macmillan Publishing Co.), 1978, 389 pp., $19.95.
  • Pages:469–470
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.469a

April 1979
Affective Disorders: Drug Actions in Animals and Man. Handbook of Psychopharmacology, Vol. 14, edited by Leslie L. Iversen, Susan D. Iversen, and Solomon H. Snyder. New York, N. Y., Plenum Press, 1978, 369 pp., $29.50
  • Page:470
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.470

April 1979
Psychotropic Drugs: A Guide for the Practitioner, by H.M. van Praag. New York, N. Y., Brunner/Mazel, 1978, 442 pp., $17.50
  • Pages:470–471
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.470a

April 1979
Books to Help Children Cope with Separation and Loss, by Joanne E. Bernstein. New York, N. Y., R.R. Bowker Co., 1977, 232 pp., $13.95
  • Page:471
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April 1979
Cocaine: 1977. NIDA Research Monograph 13, edited by Robert C. Petersen, Ph.D., and Richard C. Stillman, M.D. Rockville, Md., National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1977, 210 pp., $3.00
  • Page:471
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April 1979
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: New Directions, edited by Earl G. Witenberg, M.D. New York, N. Y., Gardner Press (Halsted Press, John Wiley & Sons, distributor), 1978, 150 pp., $16.95
  • Pages:471–472
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.471b

April 1979
Community Mental Health: A General Introduction, by Bernard L. Bloom. Monterey, Calif., Brooks/Cole Publishing Co. (Wadsworth Publishing Co.), 1977, 316 pp., $10.95
  • Page:472
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.472

April 1979
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England: 1500-1800, by Lawrence Stone. New York, N. Y., Harper & Row, 1977, 800 pp., $30.00
  • Pages:472–473
  • Published Online:24 April 2020

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.472a

April 1979
Medical Students, Medical Schools and Society During Five Eras: Factors Affecting the Career Choices of Physicians 1955–1976, by Daniel Funkenstein, M.D. Cambridge. Mass., Ballinger Publishing Co., 1978, 221 pp., $16.50
  • Page:473
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.473

April 1979
Undergraduate Medical Education and the Elective System: Experience with the Duke Curriculum, 1966–1975, edited by James F. Gifford, Jr.; William G. Anlyan, M.D., Ewald W. Busse, M.D., and Thomas D. Kinney, M.D., supervising editors. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1978, 243 pp., $9.75
  • Pages:473–474
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.473a

April 1979
The Paranoid Process, by W. W. Meissner, S.J., M.D. New York, N.Y., Jason Aronson, 1978, 840 pp., $30.00
  • Page:474
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.474

April 1979
The Community Training Center: An Educational-Behavioral-Social Systems Model for Rehabilitating Psychiatric Patients, by Michael D. Spiegler, Ph.D., and Haig Agigian, M.S.W., A.C.S.W. New York, N. Y., Brunner/Mazel, 1977, 363 pp., $15.00
  • Pages:474–475
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.474a

April 1979
Dying: A Psychoanalytic Study with Special Reference to Individual Creativity and Defensive Organizations, by Tor-Bjorn Hagglund. New York. N. Y., International Universities Press, 1978, 253 pp., $15.00
  • Page:475
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.475

April 1979
Self-Starvation: From Individual to Family Therapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, by Mara Selvini Palazzoli; translated by Arnold Pomerans. New York, N. Y., Jason Aronson, 1978, 289 pp., $15.00
  • Pages:475–476
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.475a

April 1979
This Month’s Reviewers
  • Page:477
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April 1979
Books Received
  • Pages:478–480
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.478

April 1979
The Council on Children, Adolescents, and Their Families
  • Pages:481–482
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.481

April 1979
The Council on Emerging Issues
  • Page:483
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.483

April 1979
The Council on Internal Organization
  • Pages:483–485
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.483a

April 1979
The Council on International Affairs
  • Page:485
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.485

April 1979
The Council on Medical Education and Career Development
  • Pages:486–490
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.486

April 1979
The Council on Mental Health Services
  • Pages:490–491
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.490

April 1979
The Council on National Affairs
  • Pages:492–493
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.492

April 1979
The Council on Professions and Associations
  • Page:494
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.494

April 1979
The Council on Research and Development
  • Pages:495–496
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.1979.136.4a.495