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Volume 126, Issue 6

December 1969

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December 1969

Uses and Abuses of Concepts in Psychiatry

ERIK STRÖMGREN

Pages:777–788
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.777

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Although the vocabulary of psychiatry does not exceed that of many other disciplines in size, it is unusually fluid, changing rapidly from time to time and from place to place. Psychiatrists have thus been accused at times of overindulgence in terms and ...

December 1969

An Outpatient Setting for Treating Chronically Ill Psychiatric Patients

RICHARD T. RADA,
ROBERT S. DANIELS, and
EDGAR DRAPER

Pages:789–795
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.789

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The relative neglect of the chronically ill psychiatric patient in community mental health planning emphasizes the need for new treatment methods and resources. This paper presents an eight-year experimental application of psychoanalytic principles in an ...

December 1969

Drug Administration Schedules

ALBERTO DIMASCIO, and
RICHARD I. SHADER

Pages:796–801
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.796

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Common current practice is to prescribe psychotropic drugs so that a specified daily amount is administered in equally divided doses on a three to six times a day schedule. The authors contend that this procedure rests on no valid scientific basis. They ...

December 1969

White Racism: Its Root, Form, and Function

JAMES P. COMER

Pages:802–806
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.802

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The author traces the development of white racism in the United States back to the social and religious environment of 16th century Europe and the later Revolutionary era in America. He outlines the functions it has served and its transmission from one ...

December 1969

The Mentally Ill as Motor Vehicle Operators

ALFRED CRANCER, and
DENNIS L. QUIRING

Pages:807–813
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.807

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Driving records of 271 people hospitalized for schizophrenic, psychoneurotic, and personality disorders were compared with those of 687,228 people in the same general driving environment. Patients with personality and psychoneurotic disorders had higher ...

December 1969

Psychiatric Aspects of Klinefelter's Syndrome

DAVID W. SWANSON, and
ALBERT H. STIPES

Pages:814–822
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.814

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Klinefelter's syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality resulting in hypogonadism. Intellectual impairment and/or neuropsychiatric disorder are present in many cases. The variety of psychopathology accompanying the syndrome is reviewed from the literature and ...

December 1969

Psychiatric Perspectives on T-Groups and the Laboratory Movement: An Overview

LOUIS A. GOTTSCHALK, and
E. MANSELL PATTISON

Pages:823–839
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.823

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The laboratory movement arose in the 1930s as an effort to develop educational action programs that could teach citizens to function more effectively and democratically in a variety of group settings. It has developed in many divergent directions, some of ...

December 1969

Sensitivity Training: Interpersonal "Overkill" and Other Problems

JOHN L. KUEHN, and
FRANCIS M. CRINELLA

Pages:840–845
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.840

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This discussion of T-groups focuses on questions of ecology, selection, leadership, and ethics. The authors identify four groups of people who they feel should be systematically excluded from T-groups: psychotics, characterologic neurotics, hysterics, and ...

December 1969

Experiential and Didactic Aspects of Training in Therapeutic Group Approaches

MILTON M. BERGER

Pages:845–850
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.845

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Expertise in leading therapeutic groups requires one's immersion and involvement as a whole person. The integrated mixture of the experiential and didactic in training programs may allow more group leaders to function humanistically as well as ...

December 1969

Resistances to the Learning Process in Group Dynamics Programs

IRVING L. BERGER

Pages:850–857
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.850

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Problems in teaching psychiatry and group psychotherapy in small groups vary with the type of setting, frequency and length of meetings, and specific goals of the group. Problems of dependency, oppositional patterns to the goals of the group, and ...

December 1969

Training Patients for Effective Participation in Back-Home Groups

PHILIP G. HANSON,
PAUL ROTHAUS,
WALTER E. O'CONNELL, and
GEORGE WIGGINS

Pages:857–862
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.857

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The Human Relations Training Laboratory, a problem-centered patient-group education program utilizing the feedback method, encourages self-expression, helps participants to recognize and develop their own assets and resources, enables them to contribute ...

December 1969

Growth in Medical Students Through Group Process

JAMES J. CADDEN,
FREDERIC F. FLACH,
SARA BLAKESLEE, and
RANDOLPH CHARLTON

Pages:862–868
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.862

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Voluntary participation in group seminars is offered to freshman medical students at Cornell Medical College in an effort to make the medical student, and hence the graduate physician, a more sensitive, empathic, and self-aware individual. The authors ...

December 1969

How Sensitive is Sensitivity Training?

RALPH CRAWSHAW

Pages:868–873
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.868

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The author describes three cases of emotional disturbance aggravated by sensitivity training. No quackery was detected, but the absence of ethical standards and an apparent abrogation of responsibility by the trainers and their sponsoring institutions was ...

December 1969

Sensitivity Training: Promise and Performance

JOSEPH T. ENGLISH

Pages:874–876
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.874

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December 1969

Small Group Work—The Need for Some Guidelines

KENNETH N. BREDESEN

Pages:876–877
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.876

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December 1969

Our Medical Heritage

F. J. B.

Pages:877–879
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.877

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December 1969

The New APA Standards For Psychiatric Facilities

FRANCIS DE MARNEFFE

Pages:879–881
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.879

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December 1969

Toxic Amblyopia and Peripheral Neuropathy with Ethchlorvynol Abuse

EDWARD BROWN, and
GEORGE G. MEYER

Pages:882–884
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.882

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The widespread use of ethchlorvynol as a hypnotic has led to observations that should make its users and prescribers aware of potentially serious side effects. The authors present a case involving toxic amblyopia and peripheral neuropathy, which were ...

December 1969

A Teacher Rating Scale for Use in Drug Studies with Children

C. KEITH CONNERS

Pages:884–888
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.884

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The author describes and emphasizes the value of a symptom and behavior rating checklist for teachers' use in drug studies with children. Factor analysis of the scale produced five factors that gave reliable subscales over a one-month period. A treatment ...

December 1969

The Matter of Bias in the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

LAWRENCE C. KOLB

Pages:888–891
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.888

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The author considers charges that the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology is biased against examination candidates who are trained in state hospitals or abroad, or who are members of minority groups. He concludes that bias does not exist and that ...

December 1969

1969 Anniversaries

GEORGE MORA

Pages:892–897
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.892

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The author recalls this year's anniversaries of events and individuals prominent in the history of psychiatry and briefly examines their clinical, theoretical, or legal contributions to the field.

December 1969

Psychiatric Assessment in the Social Security Program of Disability Insurance

KURT NUSSBAUM,
ABRAHAM M. SCHNEIDMUHL, and
JOHN W. SHAFFER

Pages:897–899
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.897

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The authors describe the basic legal and medical requirements for psychiatric disability benefits under social security law and regulations. They outline procedures used in assessment of impairment, stressing the need for factual observations. The active ...

December 1969

LeRoy William Earley 1916-1969

M. ROYDEN C. ASTLEY

Page:900
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.900

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December 1969

Cardiac Psychosis

HARRY S. ABRAM

Page:901
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.901

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December 1969

A Disputed Translation

BENJAMIN J. SADOCK

Pages:901-a–901
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.901-a

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December 1969

Historical Filicide

LEON TEC

Pages:901-b–902
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.901-b

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December 1969

Residents, Take Heart!

J. M. RAUENHORST

Page:902
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.902

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December 1969

Pages:903–916
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.6.903

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