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Volume 130, Issue 5

May 1973

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May 1973

The Future of Psychiatric Education

LOUIS JOLYON WEST

Pages:521–528
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.521

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The psychiatrist of tomorrow, while retaining his hardwon expertise in psychodynamics and psychotherapy, will be considerably more of a neurobiologist, endocrinologist, behavioral scientist, even mathematician, than is common today. He will be expected to ...

May 1973

Western Humanism, Modern Liberal Politics, and Psychiatric Training: Friends or Foes?

ARNOLD J. MANDELL

Pages:529–531
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.529

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Liberalism once nourished the growth of an enlightened humanism upon the rigid constructs of analytic psychiatry. The New Left promulgates definitions of psychiatrists that are inimical to the basic postulates of psychiatry. They involve the nature of ...

May 1973

A Comprehensive Alcoholism Program in the Army

BYRON G. FIMAN,
DARYL R. CONNER, and
A. CARL SEGAL

Pages:532–535
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.532

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The authors describe the development and operation of a comprehensive alcoholism program at Fort Benning, Ga., that might serve as a model for community alcoholism treatment. The factors that seemed especially important in the success of the Fort Benning ...

May 1973

Male Transsexualism: Uneasiness

ROBERT J. STOLLER

Pages:536–539
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.536

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The author discusses sex reassignment in men. He points out that since 1953, when the procedures were first publicized, attitudes toward granting "sex change" have become increasingly liberal, resulting in a dearth of knowledge about the number of men who ...

May 1973

Playroom Setting for Diagnostic Family Interviews

IBRAHIM N. ORGUN

Pages:540–542
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.540

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The author describes the use of a playroom setting for diagnostic family interviews in which play therapy and family interviewing techniques are incorporated. By using this method the diagnostic team can accumulate valuable diagnostic data on the family, ...

May 1973

Psychiatric Treatment for Nursing Home Patients: Drug, Alcohol, and Milieu

CHING-PIAO CHIEN,
BERNARD A. STOTSKY, and
JONATHAN O. COLE

Pages:543–548
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.543

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Following a four-week control period, 64 nursing home patients receiving doxepin, other psychoactive drugs, or no medication were placed on an alcohol regimen of beer or wine in the ward or in a simulated pub setup. The alcohol produced significant ...

May 1973

The Effect of Interview Language on the Evaluation of Psychopathology in Spanish-American Schizophrenic Patients

LUIS R. MARCOS,
MURRAY ALPERT,
LEONEL URCUYO, and
MARTIN KESSELMAN

Pages:549–553
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.549

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Psychiatric ratings of ten schizophrenic patients whose native language was Spanish disclosed more psychopathology when the patients were interviewed in the English language than when they were interviewed in Spanish. Some evidence suggested that there ...

May 1973

A Unified System of Care: Blueprint for the Future

ALLAN BEIGEL,
WILLIS H. BOWER, and
ALAN I. LEVENSON

Pages:554–558
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.554

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The authors describe the means used in Pima County, Arizona, to unify and coordinate the policies and procedures of a state hospital system and a community mental health system in order to provide more effective delivery of mental health services at the ...

May 1973

The Teaching of Psychiatry to Medical Students

JOHN ROMANO

Pages:559–562
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.559

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The author describes some of the changes that have taken place in undergraduate medical education in the past ten years and indicates some of the areas that will probably be touched by further change. Since these changes increase the need to develop a ...

May 1973

Medical Students View Clinical Psychiatry

SIDNEY L. WERKMAN,
STEPHEN LANDAU, and
HAROLD WAKEFIELD

Pages:562–565
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.562

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To investigate the relevance of various components of psychiatric teaching to the later practice of medicine, the authors asked 126 medical students to rate their perceptions of clinical psychiatric work and to assess their view of psychiatry before and ...

May 1973

Psychiatry in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum

MORTON F. REISER

Pages:565–567
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.565

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Psychiatry in its teaching activities has the obligation to develop effective ways of bridging vast theoretical, empirical, and philosophical gaps that exist between nonpsychiatric physicians and biological scientists (without backgrounds in behavioral ...

May 1973

A Test of Clinical Learning by Medical Students

ROBERT J. THURNBLAD,
HYMAN MUSLIN, and
JOHN LOESCH

Pages:568–570
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.568

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The authors compared the performance of different classes of medical students on an examination using videotaped clinical material. Although the examination was designed to test some aspects of clinical learning, the principal finding was that students ...

May 1973

Psychiatry in the Functionally Organized Undergraduate Curriculum

ROBERT E. BECKER,
RONALD M. WINTROB,
ROBERT CANCRO, and
JAMES R. STABENAU

Pages:571–574
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.571

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The functionally organized curriculum permits the integration of psychiatry into most of the courses that comprise the first two years of medical school. Rather than presenting psychiatry to the student as a separate discipline or centering the ...

May 1973

A Medical Interviewing Course: Objectives, Techniques, and Assessment

DAVID W. CLINE, and
JUDITH N. GARRARD

Pages:574–578
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.574

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The authors describe a course for teaching medical interviewing skills to medical students. Course components included a programmed manual, observing a skilled interviewer, role-playing exercises, programmed medical interviewing films, and interviewing ...

May 1973

Teaching Communication Skills in Medical School

JOHN WALDRON

Pages:579–581
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.579

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The author describes a method for teaching a communication skill (interviewing) to medical undergraduates. In addition to the use of closed-circuit television, feedback from instructors and peers was encouraged. The author outlines students' reactions to ...

May 1973

Evaluation of the SAID Teaching Program

DAVID W. CLINE, and
JUDITH N. GARRARD

Pages:582–585
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.582

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Evaluation of a new teaching program suggests that second-year medical students can be taught psychiatry with a multimedia combination of filmed interviews with patients, an inventory of critical symptoms, a diagnostic chart illustrating clustering of ...

May 1973

Psychiatry in Undergraduate Medical Education

ROBERT E. BECKER

Pages:586–587
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.586

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May 1973

Amnesia and Competency To Stand Trial

DENNIS KOSON, and
AMES ROBEY

Pages:588–592
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.588

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In case law, defendants suffering solely from amnesia who are otherwise competent to stand trial are generally found to be competent. However, temporary, treatable amnesia may warrant a finding of incompetency. The authors review current concepts of ...

May 1973

Legal Services as a Tool in Treating the Addict

JOYCE LOWINSON,
JOHN LANGROD, and
LEWIS ALPERIN

Pages:592–595
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.592

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Since many patients in methadone maintenance treatment programs have legal problems, the authors suggest that such programs employ an attorney to help them. They discuss the attorney's role in allaying patients' anxieties about the legal system, in ...

May 1973

Computer Assignment of Psychotropic Drugs

IVAN W. SLETTEN,
HAROLD ALTMAN,
RICHARD C. EVENSON, and
DONG WON CHO

Pages:595–598
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.595

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Data on drug assignment from patients' case records were used to: 1) derive a computer formula for assignment to one of three major drug categories, 2) compare the results from this formula with those from a previous formula using prototype data, and 3) ...

May 1973

Use of Alcohol by Addict and Nonaddict Populations

BARRY S. BROWN,
NICHOLAS J. KOZEL,
MARILYN B. MEYERS, and
ROBERT L. DUPONT

Pages:599–601
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.599

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The authors studied the use of alcohol by a sample of narcotics addicts (N=140) and by a sample of nonaddict nonalcoholics (N=100). They found that the addicts' use of alcohol prior to their use of heroin significantly exceeded that of the normal sample. ...

May 1973

The 24-Hour Serum Lithium Level as a Prognosticator of Dosage Requirements

THOMAS B. COOPER,
PER-ERICK E. BERGNER, and
GEORGE M. SIMPSON

Pages:601–603
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.601

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A technique is described that enables a physician to determine a patient's lithium dosage requirement on the basis of a single blood sample collected 24 hours after the administration of a 600 mg. priming dose of lithium. The authors discuss the basis of ...

May 1973

Piperacetazine and Chlorpromazine: A Comparison

ALONZA C. JOHNSON, and
A. S. KULKARNI

Pages:603–605
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.603

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Twenty-six agitated acute schizophrenic patients in a state hospital received intramuscular injections of either piperacetazine or chlorpromazine. Three rating scales were used to assess the effects of the drugs. Both drugs were found to be effective in ...

May 1973

Contradictions in the Alcoholism Criteria

EDMUND F. KAL

Page:606
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.606

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May 1973

Dr. Seixas Replies

FRANK A. SEIXAS

Pages:606-a–606
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.606-a

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May 1973

Speaking Out On Jewish Young People

ROBERT SEIDENBERG

Page:607
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.607

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May 1973

Speaking Out On Jewish Young People

NANCY SIMON

Pages:607-a–607
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.607-a

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May 1973

Dr. Ostow Replies

MORTIMER OSTOW

Pages:607-b–608
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.607-b

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May 1973

Lobotomies Defended

EUGENE REVITCH

Page:608
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.608

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May 1973

Dr. Breggin Replies

PETER R. BREGGIN

Page:609
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.609

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May 1973

Antinuclear Factor: Age and Sex

GRAHAM MELLSOP, and
SENGA WHITTINGHAM

Pages:609-a–609
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.609-a

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May 1973

Dr. von Brauchitsch Replies

HANS VON BRAUCHITSCH

Pages:609-b–609
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.609-b

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May 1973

Viet Nam: The Board of Trustees Steps Out of Bounds

ED J. GUNDERSON

Page:610
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.610

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May 1973

Compulsive Water Drinking

WIEBKE K. THOMSEN,
BRUCE PRINCE, and
TERRY KILGORE

Pages:610-a–610
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.610-a

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May 1973

The Weed System and Psychiatry

L. H. LIPSIUS

Pages:610-b–611
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.610-b

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May 1973

The Death of Lyndon B. Johnson

ANTHONY S. SCHUBERT

Page:611
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.611

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May 1973

Pages:612–620
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.5.612

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