Describes a population largely unknown to law enforcement personnel, the nonnarcotic drug abusers. Using data drawn from a study of ten such persons, the author presents a profile of this group. (Author)

Nonrecognition of the discrepancy between obvious and subtle items of the MMPI and failure to respond differentially to them were found to be significantly related in both normal and psychiatric sample groups. (Author)

In keeping with a learning theory approach, it is postulated that fear of examinations was a learned maladaptive pattern of behavior. Therefore, counter-conditioning through progressive relaxation and systematic desensitization was utilized to eliminate the maladaptive response in this case. (Author)

For both boys and girls, all adolescent effects are reversals of significant preadolescent effects. These reversals, predictive of adult health, can be commonly described as a change from a relatively tension-free or conflict-free preadolescence to a reactive and stressful adolescence. (Author)

If the spontaneous remission phenomenon is genuine rather than an artifact, remission should show a relationship to the length of time elapsed. Thirty analyses of variance, treating judges and diagnostic categories independently, produced no evidence for a relationship between lapse of time and improvement. (Author)

Author discusses the application of behavior modification techniques to certain disruptive behaviors. (MB)

Data from the California Psychological Inventory suggested that users were socially poised, open to experience, and concerned with the feelings of others. Conversely, they also seemed impulsive, pleasure seeking, and rebellious. Nonusers were responsible and rule abiding; however, they also tended to be inflexible, conventional, and narrow in…

Sexually aggressive males appear to have been subjected to developmental and socialization influences that leave them distrustful of women, generally aggressive, and with a high sexual urge. They are motivated to seek male associations which sanction their impulses and socially reward their conduct, enabling the aggressor to support his self…

It can be concluded that psychological needs are related to the expressed probable careers of college men, although the role of these needs is still unclear. Of the three occupations in this study, the needs of students preparing for law were the most distinctive. (Author)

In a case of claustrophobia and in another with fears of flying, Japanese defense activities of the Karate type proved to be effective counter conditioners of anxiety. They were used in the former case in vivo and in the later case both in imagination and in vivo. (Author)

The present research sought to determine whether developmental congruity between symptom form and level of maturity might be indicative of generally greater potential for adaptive success, as indicated by a measure of defense effectiveness. The results were as predicted. (Author)

New items were written for the sensation seeking scale in an attempt to develop new scales representative of hypothesized dimensions of sensation seeking. Four new factors were thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, disinhibition and boredom susceptibility which was retained as a subscale for males only. (Author/CG)

the findings indicated that (1) physical and psychlogical health are associated with marital happiness regardless of marital history, and (2) at the same time, divorce and remarriage tend to "select" the healthier members of the unhappy married population. (Author)