Showing papers in "Comprehensive Psychiatry in 1967"
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TL;DR: The concept that attempted suicide and committed suicide involve two different, though overlapping, populations is supported by data support the nature and extent of the overlapping.
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TL;DR: The patient group tended to show increased REM time, increased REM percentage, increased eye movements duringREM, failure to suppress tonic EMG activity during REM, lack of the “first night effect,” and shorter REM latency periods.
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TL;DR: The rationale and method of instrument construction used in the development of an integrated group of instruments, forms, techniques, and computer programs to assess aspects of psychiatric status, history, and social background of subjects in a quantitative manner are discussed.
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TL;DR: A case of acute hypomania precipitated by accumulated psychological traumata and triggered by hemodialysis and the reason for considering this predominantly a functional, rather than a metabolic illness is outlined.
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TL;DR: The Bown Self-Report Inventory (SRI), a 48-item instrument yielding eight scale scores and a total score, has been presented as a quick-screening mental health instrument to meet generally accepted standards for devices used for individual prediction.
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TL;DR: The usefulness and feasibility of a general purpose digital computer for psychiatric research has been demonstrated and the initial utility programs developed.
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TL;DR: This construct emphasizes the unequivocal importance of the child-family unit as basic to the understanding of school phobia and its role in stemming the tide and containing these emotions and restoring homeostasis.
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TL;DR: Patients who prematurely terminated treatment (attriters) were found to be more negative than completers toward their treatment environment and the personnel involved in it.
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TL;DR: The physician was presented as the instrument of clinical psychiatrie evaluation and his evaluative work consists of a descriptive and an interpretive synthesis of the intra- and extra-interview data, which serves as the basis for a clinical diagnostic label and also provides the “raw data” for theinterpretive synthesis.
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TL;DR: The overall response to psychiatric consultations seems to show the need for such consultations, organized as a psychiatric liaison service, and an overall subjective assessment of its usefulness by the patients.
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TL;DR: The authors feel that this clinical picture represents a thought disorder caused by regression and disturbances in perception and the capacity for attention cathexis.
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TL;DR: In this paper, two case histories are presented which describe patients suffering from auditory hallucinations of acute onset and rapid remission, and who were without other psychiatric signs or symptoms, and they were relatively asymptomatic and functioning adequately.
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TL;DR: The apparently realistic attitudes toward their illnesses and medical care displayed by those with well-defined illnesses are at variance with their views of the effects of their illnesses on their families.