A Correctiondoi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.127.3.393pmid: N/A
Page 108 of the July 1970 issue of the Journal contains two errors in the letter to the Editor by Bernard Zuger. In the first column, the first sentence of the last paragraph should read: "I did not especially go after the child's fantasies...." In the second column, beginning with the seventh line, the sentence should read: "Psychiatric examination, including the draw-a-person test, and asking the children their three wishes and what they wanted to become when grown-up...."
Perceptual Characteristics Distinguishing Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia and Acute Alcoholic PsychosesALPERT, MURRAY; SILVERS, KENNETH N.
doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.127.3.298pmid: 5458594
MURRAY ALPERT PH.D. 1 , and KENNETH N. SILVERS M.D. 2 1 Associate professor and head of psychology laboratories, department of psychiatry, New York University Medical School, 550 1st Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016 2 Instructor in residence, department of psychiatry, U.C.L.A. School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif. By means of a questionnaire the authors compared the characteristics of auditory hallucinations experienced by 45 schizophrenics and those experienced by 18 patients with alcoholic hallucinosis. The alcoholics' hallucinations were localized in space and had a greater frequency than those of the schizophrenics; the frequency was relatively independent of emotional state. The schizophrenics' hallucinations had a cognitive taint, were poorly localized, and showed a sensitivity to emotional arousal.
Involving the Private Sector in Community PsychiatryTHOMSON, CAPTANE P.
doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.127.3.363pmid: 5458603
CAPTANE P. THOMSON M.D., M.S. HYG. 1 1 Program chief, Yolo County Mental Health Services, Woodland, Calif., and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif. The author offers one answer to the question of how psychiatry can expand its capacity for direct service if a national health insurance program removes the financial barrier to care. He describes the cooperative development of a central inpatient, day patient, and emergency service that eliminates the distinction between public and private care and makes maximum use of scarce professional manpower.
Puerto Rican Spiritualists View Mental Illness: The Faith Healer as a ParaprofessionalLUBCHANSKY, ISAAC; EGRI, GLADYS; STOKES, JANET
doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.127.3.312pmid: 5458596
ISAAC LUBCHANSKY M.D. 1 , GLADYS EGRI M.D. 2 , , and JANET STOKES 3 1 Director, community psychiatry department, Lamus Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2 Department of psychiatry and the social psychiatry research unit, division of community and social psychiatry, Columbia University, 128 Fort Washington Ave., New York, N. Y. 10032 3 Department of psychiatry, New York University, department of psychiatry and the social psychiatry research unit, division of community and social psychiatry, Columbia University, 128 Fort Washington Ave., New York, N. Y. 10032 The authors examined the attitudes and beliefs about mental illness of 20 faith healers in the Puerto Rican community of New York City; these were compared with data collected earlier from samples of Spanish-speaking community leaders and a cross-section of Puerto Rican household heads. Spiritualists appear to be an idiosyncratic group differentiated within their culture for the purpose of healing. The authors emphasize the lack of professional acknowledgment of the role native healers play in this and other minorities and present two case studies that may help to explain this lack of acknowledgment.
A Comparison of Psychiatric Symptom Frequency Under Narrative and Check List ConditionsMEIKLE, STEWART; GERRITSE, RICHARD
doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.127.3.379pmid: 5458607
STEWART MEIKLE PH.D. 1 , and RICHARD GERRITSE B.SC. 2 1 Research psychologist and associate professor of psychology, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alta., Canada 2 Computer systems analyst, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alta., Canada The authors investigated the effect of the frequency with which descriptive items are used when a check list is substituted for the usual narrative history. The results of the study suggest that rather than resulting in a loss of descriptive information the check list produced a sizable increase in the use of such terms.