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Volume 125, Issue 2

August 1968

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August 1968

Psychiatric Practice and Public Policy

BERTRAM S. BROWN

Pages:141–146
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.141

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As men seek the answers to the major public policy questions of our time, they increasingly turn to psychiatry. The author cites several major areas where he feels psychiatry has a potential contribution, including health economics, antisocial disorders, ...

August 1968

Prospects and Perspectives: Implications of Social Change for Psychiatry

WALTER E. BARTON

Pages:147–150
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.147

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The author assumes that psychiatrists wish to participate in the social evolution and revolution that are today's reality. However, he cautions against over-enthusiasm for the new fashions in psychiatry and stresses the need for careful evaluation and for ...

August 1968

Willing Victims: The Husbands of Paranoid Women

ROBERT L. DUPONT, and
HENRY GRUNEBAUM

Pages:151–159
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.151

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The authors describe a marital syndrome associated with the diagnosis of paranoid state in nine married women. These women had chosen husbands who were passive, socially isolated, and unable to directly express angry or sexual feelings; they were likely ...

August 1968

Changes in Public Attitudes on Narcotic Addiction

E. MANSELL PATTISON,
LYALL A. BISHOP, and
ARNOLD S. LINSKY

Pages:160–167
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.160

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By sampling articles on narcotic addiction from the popular magazines over the past seven decades, the authors investigated trends in public attitudes toward the narcotic addict. In comparison with the public view in 1900, the addict is now seen as less ...

August 1968

A Study of Normal Bereavement

PAULA CLAYTON,
LYNN DESMARAIS, and
GEORGE WINOKUR

Pages:168–178
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.168

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By systematically interviewing relatives of a series of hospital patients who died, the authors have delineated the symptoms of normal bereavement. Only three symptoms—depressed mood, sleep disturbance, and crying—occurred in more than one-half of the ...

August 1968

The Group Treatment of Male Exhibitionists

JAMES S. WITZIG

Pages:179–185
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.179

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The author describes the results of group therapy for male genital exhibitionists in a community mental health clinic. Group treatment in an open setting was found to be an efficient and effective program if certain diagnostic considerations were ...

August 1968

Trials and Tribulations in Establishing a Community Hospital Psychiatric Unit

ROBERT A. MOORE, and
ROBERT A. HENRY

Pages:186–191
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.186

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Descriptions of the general hospital psychiatric unit are often based upon facilities in large university centers and teaching hospitals. The psychiatric unit in a small community hospital faces very different problems. The authors review the steps they ...

August 1968

The Psychiatric Manifestations of Cerebral Malaria

W. WEBSTER BLOCKER,
ALBERT J. KASTL, and
ROBERT B. DAROFF

Pages:192–196
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.192

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During a ten-month period 1,200 U. S. soldiers were admitted to an Army hospital in South Viet Nam with falciparum malaria. Nineteen developed "cerebral malaria," and three of these showed dramatic personality changes manifested as apparent "functional" ...

August 1968

Suicide and the Communication of Rage: A Cross-Cultural Case Study

FREDERICK D. MCCANDLESS

Pages:197–205
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.197

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The author reports the study of 36 attempted suicides in Guyana, an emerging nation where suicide attempts are a major public health problem. The incidence of suicide is lower among persons of African descent, which reflects the fact that there are a ...

August 1968

Sex Education Programs in Schools

WILLIAM L. PELTZ

Pages:206–212
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.206

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Psychiatrists are increasingly being asked to participate in school and community programs on sex education. The author describes the development of typical programs, pointing out that their current aims are similar in many ways to those of preventive and ...

August 1968

The Law of Private Imprisonment: Fifty Dark Years for the Mentally Ill in Japan

Y. KUMASAKA, and
S. YOSHIOKA

Pages:213–216
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.213

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In Japan from 1900 to 1950 the so-called law of private imprisonment provided for the confinement of the mentally ill in private cells. The authors describe the conditions to which the mentally ill were subjected during this time, with special reference ...

August 1968

ALEXANDER H. LEIGHTON

Pages:217–218
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.217

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August 1968

The Sociocultural Setting of Indian Life

D'ARCY MCNICKLE

Pages:219–223
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.219

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It is commonly assumed that the American Indian is faced with "inevitable" assimilation, either voluntary or involuntary, into the majority culture. As this author points out, however, the Indian has managed to find alternatives in the past when, in his ...

August 1968

Research on Psychosocial Adjustment of Indian Youth

HARRY L. SASLOW, and
MAY J. HARROVER

Pages:224–231
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.224

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The school experiences of Indian children tend to accentuate rather than resolve their identity problems; the outcome is often an increase in behavioral and disciplinary difficulties. At some point between the fourth and seventh grades a decline in ...

August 1968

Some Implications for a Preventive Program for American Indians

ROBERT L. LEON

Pages:232–236
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.232

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Efforts to combat the psychosocial stresses existing within the Indian community should focus upon involving the Indian in the determination of his own fate. The author outlines a new role for the federal government in its historic relationship to the ...

August 1968

Psychiatric Education of Physicians: What Are Our Goals?

C. H. HARDIN BRANCH

Pages:237–241
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.237

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August 1968

Pervasive Anxiety and the Need for Wisdom

F. J. B.

Pages:241–242
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.241

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August 1968

Long-Term Chlorpromazine Retention and Its Modification by Steroids

MURRAY A. COWEN, and
WILLIAM C. MARTIN

Pages:243–245
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.243

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Urine chlorpromazine excretion was measured in 28 senile patients who had been unmedicated for 12 to 18 months. Significant amounts of chlorpromazine were often detectable. The excretion rate of chlorpromazine could be increased by administration of ...

August 1968

Cataracts Following Chronic Headbanging: A Report of Two Cases

J. R. BEMPORAD,
J. A. SOURS, and
H. F. SPALTER

Pages:245–249
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.245

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In order to assess the relationship between severe cataracts and violent headbanging, ophthalmologic examinations were performed on a random group of institutionalized headbangers; it was found that the majority had cataracts of varying maturity. The ...

August 1968

Obesity and the Self-Help Group: A Look at TOPS

SAMUEL WAGONFELD, and
HOWARD M. WOLOWITZ

Pages:249–252
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.249

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The membership and dynamics of self-help weight-reduction groups, which are successful for a number of obese women, are explored. While such a group probably accomplishes no alteration in personality, it strengthens existing defenses. The authors were ...

August 1968

Blood Sugar Levels in Patients Treated with Chlorpromazine

LUIS SCHWARZ, and
RODRIGO MUNOZ

Pages:253–255
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.253

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The authors studied 850 patients being treated with chlorpromazine for changes in blood sugar level. While the 22 diabetic patients in the sample did not show significant modifications in their blood sugar levels, five patients developed diabetes after ...

August 1968

A Psychopathological Reaction Precipitated by Sensory Deprivation

GEORGE C. CURTIS, and
MARVIN ZUCKERMAN

Pages:255–260
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.255

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A young male subject developed an acute psychotic reaction during an eight-hour sensory deprivation experiment. His delusions lasted several days, and severe anxiety and depression lasted several weeks. This is the third reported case of such a prolonged ...

August 1968

Separation Problems in Military Wives

HOUSTON MACINTOSH

Pages:260–265
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.260

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Sixty-three military wives experiencing psychiatric disturbances while separated from their husbands for military reasons are compared with 113 wives not separated but needing psychiatric help. Some important psychodynamics of separation are discussed, ...

August 1968

The Treatment of Enuresis with Imipramine

LEON TEC

Page:266
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.266

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August 1968

Dr. Bindelgias Replies

PAUL M. BINDELGLAS

Pages:266-a–267
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.266-a

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August 1968

Theory of Depression Based on Paleophysiological Principles Suggested

A. D. JONAS

Pages:267–268
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.267

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August 1968

WIGDOR MARKIEWICZ

Page:268
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.268

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August 1968

Dr. Hayman Replies

MAX HAYMAN

Pages:268-a–268
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.268-a

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August 1968

Pages:269–280
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.2.269

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