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American Journal of Psychiatry

Sesquicentennial Anniversary 1844-1994

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This covers the American Journal of Psychiatry from 1844 to 1994.

DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9781615376988
Publisher:	American Psychiatric Publishing
Copyright Year:	1994
Print Date:	May 1, 1994
Online Date:	December 5, 2024

Front Matter

I: Attitudes and Policies

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. July 1844. Asylums Exclusively for the Incurable Insane

Chapter 3. July 1847. The Moral Treatment of Insanity

Chapter 4. July 1851. Gheel

Chapter 5. October 1845. A Sketch of the History, Buildings, and Organization of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, Extracted Principally From the Reports of Thomas S. Kirkbride, M.D., Physician to the Institution

Chapter 6. Reprinted from The Journal of Nerbous and Mental Disease for July 1894. Address Before the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the American Medico-Psychological Association, Held in Philadelphia, May 16th, 1894

Chapter 7. October 1894. Some Remarks on the Address Delivered to the American Medico-Psychological Association, By S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., May 16, 1894

Chapter 8. April 1897. A Short Sketch of the Problems of Psychiatry

Chapter 9. November 1939. The Attitude of Neurologists, Psychiatrists and Psychologists Towards Psychoanalysis

Chapter 10. Centennial Anniversary Jssue, 1844–1944. Some Trends of Psychiatry

Chapter 11. Centennial Anniversary Jssue, 1844—1944. Benjamin Rush and American Psychiatry

Chapter 12. September 1947. The Rôle of Psychiatry in the World Today

Chapter 13. March 1949. Current Trends in German Psychiatry

Chapter 14. June 1990. Reminiscences: 1938 and Since

II: Clinical Description

Chapter 15. Introduction

Chapter 16. October 1844. Definition of Insanity—Nature of the Disease

Chapter 17. July 1877. Katatonia, a Clinical Form of Insanity

Chapter 18. October 1885. The Curability of Insanity: A Statistical Study

Chapter 19. April 1926. Personality Changes and Upheavals Arising Out of the Sense of Personal Failure

Chapter 20. July 1927. The Onset of Schizophrenia

Chapter 21. April 1927. In Memoriam: Emil Kraepelin

Chapter 22. July 1933. The Acute Schizoaffective Psychoses

Chapter 23. September 1944. Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief

Chapter 24. September 1946. Irrelevant and Metaphorical Language in Early Infantile Autism

III: Research: Methods, Mechanisms, and Causes

Chapter 25. Introduction

Chapter 26. January 1845. The Importance of a Correct Physiology of the Brain, as Applied to the Elucidation of Medico-Legal Questions; and the Necessity of Greater Accuracy and Minuteness in Reporting Post Mortem Examinations

Chapter 27. October 1849. Statistics of Insanity

Chapter 28. January 1896. A Review of the Signs of Degeneration and of Methods of Registration

Chapter 29. April 1926. Influenza and Schizophrenia: An Analysis of Post-Influenzal “Dementia Precox,” as of 1918, and Five Years Later Further Studies of the Psychiatric Aspects of Influenza

Chapter 30. November 1946. The Genetic Theory of Schizophrenia: An Analysis of 691 Schizophrenic Twin Index Families

Chapter 31. November 1947. The Concepts of “Meaning” and “Cause” in Psychodynamics

Chapter 32. June 1948. Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism in Schizophrenia: The Effects of Barbiturate Semi-Narcosis, Insulin Coma and Electroshock

Chapter 33. December 1949. Research and Its Support Under the National Mental Health Act

IV: Developments in Somatic Treatment

Chapter 34. Introduction

Chapter 35. July 1850. Observations on the Medical Treatment of Insanity

Chapter 36. March 1946. The History of the Malaria Treatment of General Paralysis

Chapter 37. May 1937. Prefrontal Leucotomy in the Treatment of Mental Disorders

Chapter 38. July 1937. The Methodical Use of Hypoglycemia in the Treatment of Psychoses

Chapter 39. March 1941. Curare: A Preventive of Traumatic Complications in Convulsive Shock Therapy: (Including a Preliminary Report on a Synthetic Curare-Like Drug)

Chapter 40. November 1949. The Society of Alcoholics Anonymous

Chapter 41. July 1950. The Use of Antabuse (Tetraethylthiuramdisulphide) in Chronic Alcoholics

Chapter 42. June 1955. Chlorpromazine Treatment of Mental Disorders

Chapter 43. October 1959. Clinical Findings in the Use of Tofrānil in Depressive and Other Psychiatric States

Benjamin Pollack

Chapter 44. December 1966. The Use of Lithium in the Affective Psychoses

Chapter 45. The American Journal of Psychiatry Gratefully Acknowledges the Support of the Sponsors of the Sesquicentennial Anniversary Supplement.

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