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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 127, Issue 11

May 1971

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May 1971

The First Three Years of Life: An Overview of a New Frontier of Psychiatry

REGINALD S. LOURIE

Pages:1457–1463
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1457

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Psychiatry must become more concerned with the first three years of life if the roots of later pathology are to be identified so that preventive measures can be undertaken. In this overview the author interweaves newer information with what is already ...

May 1971

A Psychiatric Follow-Up Study of "Normal" Adults

MORTON BEISER

Pages:1464–1472
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1464

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The author describes a study designed to assess stability and change in mental health over a five-year period, using 123 subjects chosen from the larger Stirling County survey sample. The results showed: 1) a tendency toward stabilization of mental health ...

May 1971

Episodic Dyscontrol: A Study of 130 Violent Patients

GEORGE BACH-Y-RITA,
JOHN R. LION,
CARLOS E. CLIMENT, and
FRANK R. ERVIN

Pages:1473–1478
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1473

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The authors report a two-year study of 130 patients with a chief complaint of explosive violent behavior. When pertinent and possible, neurological and psychological tests, EEGs, pneumoencephalograms, and other tests were made. The authors noted that the ...

May 1971

Psychiatric Education in the Americas

EUGENE B. BRODY

Pages:1479–1484
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1479

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Changing values regarding the delivery of reparative and preventive health services require increased social sensitivity as well as public health competence on the part of psychiatrists. These goals and more adequate behavioral science education for ...

May 1971

Screening for T-Groups: The Myth of Healthy Candidates

WALTER N. STONE, and
MURRAY E. TIEGER

Pages:1485–1490
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1485

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The authors screened 105 applicants for attendance at a week-long T-group conducted by nonprofessionals. The psychological evaluation and screening procedures included a written application, psychological tests, and a small group experience. Fifteen ...

May 1971

The Development of the Language of Emotions

WILLIAM C. LEWIS,
RICHARD N. WOLMAN, and
MURIEL KING

Pages:1491–1497
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1491

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A study of 256 school children revealed that with increasing age, children—especially boys—demonstrate increased freedom from the external environment for cues to emotional arousal; girls tend to be more visceral and less cerebral in the body sites they ...

May 1971

Murder in the Family: A Study of Some Homicidal Adolescents

JANE WATSON DUNCAN, and
GLEN M. DUNCAN

Pages:1498–1502
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1498

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Five cases are presented in which a homicidal adolescent`s abrupt loss of control was associated with a change in his interpersonal relationship with the victim, together with a sequence of events progressively more unbearable and less amenable to his ...

May 1971

Variables Related to the Selection of Psychiatric Residents

ROBERT PLUTCHIK,
HOPE CONTE, and
HENRY KANDLER

Pages:1503–1508
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1503

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Ninety physicians who applied for psychiatric residencies were rated on a 32-item scale that included such characteristics as self-awareness, sensitivity to others, and problem-solving ability. Scores significantly discriminated between those applicants ...

May 1971

Desensitization and Flooding (Implosion) in Treatment of Phobias

M. Z. HUSSAIN

Pages:1509–1514
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1509

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A controlled cross-over trial of desensitization and flooding therapy assisted by intravenous thiopental or saline infusion was carried out in 40 patients with agoraphobia or social phobias. Patients showed gradual symptom improvement with desensitization ...

May 1971

Further Experimental Studies of Mental Patients Through the Autokinetic Phenomenon

ALBERT C. VOTH, and
HAROLD M. VOTH

Pages:1515–1520
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1515

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This study aimed at replicating an earlier one that demonstrated a relationship between autokinesis—the apparent motion of a pinpoint of light in a dark room—and the major psychiatric syndromes. Data collected on 1,402 psychiatric inpatients revealed ...

May 1971

Studies of the Deaf: Relevance to Psychiatric Theory

KENNETH Z. ALTSHULER

Pages:1521–1526
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1521

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The author reports observations extending over 16 years of persons with early total deafness. Despite the variety and severity of early stresses, schizophrenia did not appear with unusual frequency, although hallucinations (alleged to be auditory) ...

May 1971

A Psychiatric Program for the Deaf: Experiences and Implications

JOHN D. RAINER, and
KENNETH Z. ALTSHULER

Pages:1527–1532
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1527

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The authors describe the first psychiatric research and demonstration program for the deaf in the U.S., which began in New York State in 1955. In 1963 a special inpatient unit for the deaf was opened; during its first three years it was able to discharge ...

May 1971

Visual Phenomenology in Recently Blind Adults

ROY G. FITZGERALD

Pages:1533–1539
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1533

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A psychosocial investigation of 66 recently blind adults revealed that depressive reactions were prominent in a generally abating course. Visual residua and behaviors irrelevant to blindness occurred in all subjects. They are described and related to ...

May 1971

Congenital and Perinatal Sensory Deprivation: Some Studies in Early Development

DAVID A. FREEDMAN

Pages:1539–1545
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1539

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Very early deficiency of coenesthetic (i.e., nonspecific) sensory experience results in gross, apparently irreversible, personality disturbances. The author presents evidence indicating that the high incidence of autistic disturbances in the congenitally ...

May 1971

Sensory Deprivation

PHILIP SOLOMON, and
SUSAN T. KLEEMAN

Pages:1546–1547
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1546

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May 1971

The Other Side of the Coin

ALEXANDER H. LEIGHTON

Pages:1547–1549
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1547

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May 1971

Mental Health Director: Bird of Passage

GEORGE A. ULETT,
HARRY SCHNIBBE,
LEONARD J. GANSER, and
WARREN A. THOMPSON

Pages:1550–1554
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1550

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The state mental health director today is in a position to integrate the mental health services demanded by society. There have been few attempts in the past to provide this position with the uniformity, standards, and security warranted by its potential ...

May 1971

Experimental Withdrawal of Lithium in Recovered Manic-Depressive Patients: A Report of Five Cases

JOYCE G. SMALL,
IVER F. SMALL, and
DONALD F. MOORE

Pages:1555–1558
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1555

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The authors conducted a single-blind study to determine whether patients with manic-depressive disease who responded favorably to lithium would show significant change when placebo was substituted. Symptoms recurred in all subjects within six weeks of ...

May 1971

Leukocytosis During Lithium Treatment

DENNIS L. MURPHY,
FREDERICK K. GOODWIN, and
WILLIAM E. BUNNEY

Pages:1559–1561
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1559

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An increase in circulating leukocytes accompanied lithium treatment in 28 consecutively studied manic-depressive patients. Acutely manic patients showed the most marked changes and maintained leukocyte counts of 10,000 to 14,000 during the first two to ...

May 1971

Voting Competence and Mental Illness

MORRIS M. KLEIN, and
SAUL A. GROSSMAN

Pages:1562–1565
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1562

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Does mental illness render a person incompetent to vote? Two studies highlight the similarity of voting behavior between patients hospitalized in a community state hospital and citizens living in the community. The results of the studies appear to dispel ...

May 1971

Confidentiality in Psychiatric Screening for Security Clearance

PHILIP SOLOMON,
SUSAN T. KLEEMAN, and
WILLIAM J. CURRAN

Pages:1566–1568
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1566

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Confidentiality is only partial in psychiatric examinations for security clearance. The applicant for clearance accepts this limitation because he wants clearance. The government protects the applicant's privacy as much as possible within the bounds of ...

May 1971

Women Physicians: Their Professional Performance

LEON EISENBERG

Pages:1569–1570
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1569

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May 1971

Reprint Addiction

D. PETER BIRKETT

Page:1570
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1570

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May 1971

Frantz Fanon: His Power

CHARLES L. BOWDEN

Pages:1570-a–1571
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1570-a

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May 1971

Obtaining Insurance for People Who Have Had Psychiatric Consultation

MORTON HERMAN

Pages:1571–1572
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1571

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May 1971

Cerebral Training

VIRGINIA JOHNSON

Pages:1572–1573
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1572

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May 1971

Dr Rosenberg Replies

MERVIN ROSENBERG

Page:1573
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1573

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May 1971

The Superiority of Lithium Over Methysergide in Treating Manic Patients

PAUL GROF, and
PATRICK FOLEY

Pages:1573-a–1574
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1573-a

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May 1971

Drug Consumption and the Perpetuation of Symptoms

BURTON S. GLICK

Pages:1574–1575
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1574

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May 1971

Psychiatric Commitment of Dissenters in Russia: A Myth?

HERBERT BENGELSDORF

Page:1575
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1575

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May 1971

"An Observer" Replies

Pages:1575-a–1576
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1575-a

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May 1971

Publication Lag

RICHARD C. PILLARD

Page:1576
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1576

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May 1971

Poorly Supervised Sensitivity Groups: What They Can Do

LLOYD T. BACCUS

Page:1577
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1577

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May 1971

Early Psychic Growth and the Borderline Patient

HARVEY D. LOMAS

Pages:1577-a–1577
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1577-a

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May 1971

Pages:1578–1594
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1578

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May 1971

The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Pages:1595–1596
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.11.1595

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