American Journal of Psychiatry

Shapiro, B; Spitz, H

doi: N/Apmid: 984224

The authors discuss the problems of accurately diagnosing narcolepsy when patients manifest the auxiliary symptoms of this disorder, i.e., cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis, which conclude that misdiagnosis of narcolepsy can be avoided if clinicians are aware that this illness can simulate a psychiatric disorder and if they give careful

JD Griffin

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Cadoret, RJ; Cunningham, L; Loftus, R; Edwards, J

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Analysis of data gathered from interviews with adoptive parents supports the hypothesis that female adoptees of antisocial biological backgrounds might have higher percentages of somatic symptoms. The authors compared female adoptees of antisocial parentage with male and female controls, male adoptees of antisocial parentage, and male and female adoptees whose biological parents had other psychiatric conditions. They stress the importance of this hypothesis in the diagnosis and management of childhood

Gurman, AL; Gustafson, JP

doi: N/Apmid: 984219

The authors review the empirical literature examining the hypothesized relationship between the patient's perception of the therapeutic relationship and treatment outcome in group therapy and describe studies of both inpatient and outpatient group therapy. Their review indicates that, in contrast to the overwhelming evidence in support of the perceived relationship-outcome hypothesis in individual psychotherapy, there is no persuasive evidence in favor of the proposed relationship between the therapist-patient relationship and the efficacy of group treatment. The authors discuss the clinical and theoretical differences between individual

Burgoyne, RW; Santini, S; Kline, F; Staples, FR

doi: N/Apmid: 185917

A study of 89 individual psychotherapy patients followed by 17 residents in a teaching clinic demonstrated that those presented for supervision significantly differed from the others in being younger, better educated, and better liked by residents and in having higher incomes and longer term treatment. The authors discuss the implications of these findings in relation to the inequity in service time and teaching emphasis that this

Suomi, SJ; Delizio, R; Harlow, HF

doi: N/Apmid: 824960

The authors studied a group of four monkeys reared together, repeatedly separated from each other, and then exposed to another group of four monkeys reared in surrogate-peer groups who acted as therapists. The study group was compared with the therapist monkeys, a group exposed to the same separations but not to the therapist monkeys, a control group that experienced no separations, and two additional groups of stimulus animals. The authors' findings indicate that monkeys showing depressive begaviors after repeated separations can be returned to age-appropriate social

RALPH CRAWSHAW

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HOWARD P. ROME

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K Solomon

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MILTON GREENBLATT

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