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Volume 127, Issue 12

June 1971

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June 1971

Parental, Birth, and Infancy Factors in Infant Twin Development

MARTIN G. ALLEN,
WILLIAM POLLIN, and
AXEL HOFFER

Pages:1597–1604
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1597

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This report, part of a longitudinal study of ten pairs of twins, delineates personality differences that appear in the first year of life, especially in the areas of dependence-independence, emotionality, sociability, curiosity, and activity-passivity. ...

June 1971

Are Antidepressants Better Than Placebo?

SIDNEY MALITZ, and
MAUREEN KANZLER

Pages:1605–1611
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1605

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A study of 203 depressed outpatients who were randomly assigned to one of seven active drug treatment groups or to a placebo group demonstrated that the inclusion of a placebo group is essential for valid assessment of the efficacy of antidepressant ...

June 1971

Ineffective Personnel in Military Service: A Critique of Concepts and Rehabilitation Practices from a Psychiatric Viewpoint

ROLAND M. ATKINSON

Pages:1612–1618
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1612

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Ineffectiveness in military service has been demonstrated usually to be the product of transactional psychosocial processes, although a contrary official attitude holds that ineffectiveness is the result of a man's personality deficits. Rehabilitation ...

June 1971

A Potential Clinical Use for Methylphenidate with Tricyclic Antidepressants

RALPH N. WHARTON,
JAMES M. PEREL,
PETER G. DAYTON, and
SIDNEY MALITZ

Pages:1619–1625
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1619

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Seven patients with recurrent refractory psychotic depressive illness were treated with tricyclic antidepressants plus methylphenidate (Ritalin). The effect of methylphenidate appears to involve an increase in the blood levels of antidepressants through ...

June 1971

Short-Term Acute Psychiatric Care: A Follow-Up Study

S. B. PENICK,
NANCY BUONPANE, and
R. N. CARRIER

Pages:1626–1630
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1626

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Every fourth patient from the total of 1,571 patients admitted to the Carrier Clinic during 1967 (with a mean hospital stay of 25 days) was followed up 2.5 years later. Ninety percent of the study group, whether or not they had been rehospitalized in the ...

June 1971

Phenothiazine Intake and Staff Attitudes

DAVID S. IRWIN,
WILLIAM D. WEITZEL, and
DONALD W. MORGAN

Pages:1631–1635
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1631

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The authors report the percentages of patients who failed to adhere minimally to prescribed phenothiazine medication schedules in closed-ward, open-ward, and chronic outpatient treatment situations within a single hospital. An unexpected finding was that ...

June 1971

Direct Child Observation in Psychiatry Residency Training

JERRY M. WIENER, and
ROBERT MICHELS

Pages:1636–1640
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1636

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Direct observation of normal children at various stages of development was incorporated into a psychiatry residency program. This experience helps to compensate for the resident's limited contact with normal children and complement his study of ...

June 1971

Body Buffer Zone and Violence: A Reassessment and Confirmation

ARTHUR M. HILDRETH,
LEONARD R. DEROGATIS, and
KEN McCUSKER

Pages:1641–1645
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1641

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Randomly selected inmates in a state prison were evaluated for sensitivity to physical closeness and aggressiveness. The results confirmed the conclusion from previous research that aggressive inmates have greater sensitivity to physical closeness than do ...

June 1971

Familial Patterns in Chronic Alcoholism: A Study of a Father and Son During Experimental Intoxication

SHELDON WEINER,
JOHN S. TAMERIN,
PETER STEINGLASS, and
JACK H. MENDELSON

Pages:1646–1651
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1646

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A father and son, both chronic alcoholics, were studied in an experimental intoxication paradigm. Marked affective shifts, emergence of hidden themes, and role reversals followed the course of the drinking experience. However, with the cessation of ...

June 1971

Behavioral Tolerance to Alcohol in Moderate Drinkers

DONALD W. GOODWIN,
BARBARA POWELL, and
JOHN STERN

Pages:1651–1653
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1651

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Alcohol was administered to young male volunteers with a history of light or moderate drinking. Subjects with the greatest drinking experience performed significantly better on a motor task and took fewer "risks" than did subjects with less drinking ...

June 1971

The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test: The Quest for a New Diagnostic Instrument

MELVIN L. SELZER

Pages:1653–1658
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1653

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The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST), devised to provide a consistent, quantifiable, structured interview instrument to detect alcoholism, consists of 25 questions that can be rapidly administered. Five groups were given the MAST: hospitalized ...

June 1971

Alcohol and Memory: Amnesia and Short-Term Memory Function During Experimentally Induced Intoxication

JOHN S. TAMERIN,
SHELDON WEINER,
ROGER POPPEN,
PETER STEINGLASS, and
JACK H. MENDELSON

Pages:1659–1664
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1659

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This study represents the first attempt to examine the alcoholic blackout during a sustained period of experimental intoxication. Thirteen male alcoholics with histories of blackouts drank large amounts of beverage alcohol for 12 to 14 days. Daily ...

June 1971

Two Species of Alcoholic "Blackout"

DONALD W. GOODWIN

Pages:1665–1670
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1665

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Alcohol was administered to two groups of volunteers to study its effects on memory. In one study five alcoholics experienced amnesia after receiving large amounts of alcohol. The amnesia was anterograde, beginning a few minutes after test events occurred ...

June 1971

Sociopsychiatric Treatment of Alcoholism in an Urban Ghetto

SHELDON ZIMBERG,
HENRY LIPSCOMB, and
ELIZABETH B. DAVIS

Pages:1670–1674
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1670

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A day care program at the Harlem Hospital Center alcoholism unit provided an alcohol-free environment and an opportunity for patients to socialize and develop interpersonal skills as well as to deal with their low selfesteem through the use of group ...

June 1971

Attitudes of Psychiatrists and Psychologists Toward Alcoholism

WILMA J. KNOX

Pages:1675–1679
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1675

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Responses to a survey of attitudes on alcoholism were obtained from 345 psychiatrists and 480 psychologists employed by the Veterans Administration. Their attitudes were remarkably similar. Both groups rejected the disease concept in preference to ...

June 1971

Alcoholism: Some Contemporary Issues and Problems

JACK H. MENDELSON

Pages:1680–1681
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1680

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June 1971

A New Day of Hope for Alcoholics

MORRIS E. CHAFETZ

Pages:1682–1683
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1682

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June 1971

24-Hour Psychiatric Consultation Via TV

CHARLES SOLOW,
ROBERT J. WEISS,
BERNARD J. BERGEN, and
CHARLOTTE J. SANBORN

Pages:1684–1687
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1684

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Consultation services via two-way closed circuit television have proved to be effective in helping nonpsychiatric physicians to improve their knowledge of psychiatry and to treat their emotionally ill patients. The authors describe such a service set up ...

June 1971

The Psychiatrist and Child Custody Contests

JACK C. WESTMAN

Pages:1687–1688
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1687

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The author discusses problems in divorce cases involving children—problems of securing adequate representation for the children, determining their best interests, and discovering the effect of the divorce procedure on them. He recommends establishing ...

June 1971

Leisure: A Problem for Preventive Psychiatry

WERNER M. MENDEL

Pages:1688–1691
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1688

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The increased amount of leisure created by our shrinking work week has become a frantic time leading to psychological depression. Our work-oriented ethic, which is anti-pleasure, anti-leisure, and anti-laughter, is perpetuated by our child-rearing ...

June 1971

Sexual Behavior During L-dopa Treatment for Parkinsonism

MALCOLM B. BOWERS,
MELVIN VAN WOERT, and
LINDA DAVIS

Pages:1691–1693
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1691

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Nineteen patients who were receiving L-dopa for parkinsonism were interviewed to assess the effect of L-dopa treatment on sexual behavior. Seven patients (37 percent) reported an activation of sexual behavior at some point during the therapy. Interview ...

June 1971

Determining Factors in the Return of Mexican Psychiatrists Trained in the United States

GUIDO BELSASSO, and
RAMON PARRES

Pages:1694–1696
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1694

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Developing nations lose over 50 percent of their physicians who go to the United States for specialized training. The authors discuss factors that contribute to the return of Mexican psychiatrists trained abroad: a clear identity with the native culture, ...

June 1971

Michael Balint 1896-1970

PAUL H. ORNSTEIN

Page:1697
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1697

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June 1971

American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization

THOMAS S. SZASZ

Page:1698
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1698

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June 1971

Assessing Antidepressants' Effectiveness

M. Z. HUSSAIN

Pages:1698-a–1699
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1698-a

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June 1971

Dr. Rickels Replies

KARL RICKELS

Pages:1699–1700
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1699

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June 1971

Opiate Maintenance

MICHAEL D. PARIS

Page:1700
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1700

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June 1971

A Method of Reference Citation

IAN STEVENSON

Pages:1700-a–1701
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1700-a

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June 1971

Reporting Behavioral Science Data

BERNARD LUBIN, and
ROBERT B. BECHTEL

Pages:1701–1702
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1701

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June 1971

Dr. Zung Replies

WILLIAM W. K. ZUNG

Page:1702
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1702

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June 1971

Anorexia Nervosa—Follow-Up on a Special Method of Treatment

LEON TEC

Pages:1702-a–1702
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1702-a

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June 1971

Pages:1703–1714
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1703

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June 1971

The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Pages:1715–1716
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.12.1715

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