CLINICAL ASPECTS OF COMBINED PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENTS

DÉSIRÉ ANNAUAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 111, Number 10

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.10.734

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Clinical observations led the author to the following conclusions:

1. Present-day psychiatric treatment methods have no specific, but have, to a certain degree, selective actions.

2. Electroconvulsive treatment relieves all forms of depressions and is able to alleviate emotional pressure.

3. Nonconvulsive electric treatment relieves anxiety and thus makes the patient amenable to productive psychotherapy.

4. Insulin coma treatment acts on an ideational level, thus enabling the patient to correct paranoid ideas.

5. Double electric shock treatment is necessary in highly emotionally disturbed states.

6. Combined treatments are indicated when different mechanisms are at work in creating psychotic symptoms.

The author believes that these and similar clinical observations open many avenues to fruitful research, and that proper indications for treatment methods, together with satisfactory management of the hospital environment, would greatly improve our therapeutic results.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 111 • Number 10 • April 1955

Pages: 734 - 742

PubMed: 14361756

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Published in print: April 1955

Published online: 1 April 2006

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DÉSIRÉ ANNAU

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CLINICAL ASPECTS OF COMBINED PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENTS

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