Skip to main content
No access
Article
Published Online: April 1962

TREATMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS WITH A PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE (PROCHLORPERAZINE) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AFTER CARE

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Abstract

1. Prochlorperazine has proved to be an effective drug for the treatment of acute psychotic conditions and for maintenance therapy in an after care setting of chronic psychiatric patients. It is particularly valuable in paranoid states and schizophrenia. Frequent side effects (53%) especially of the extrapyramidal type were generally controlled without difficulty by the addition of anti-parkinsonian drugs.
2. Frequently, discontinuation or decrease of the dose of prochlorperazine resulted in exacerbation of symptoms, which in most cases responded promptly to resumption of maintenance therapy or to increase of dosage.

Get full access to this article

View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.

Information & Authors

Information

Published In

Go to American Journal of Psychiatry
Go to American Journal of Psychiatry
American Journal of Psychiatry
Pages: 938 - 940
PubMed: 13916022

History

Published in print: April 1962
Published online: 1 April 2006

Authors

Affiliations

J. ST. LAURENT
Verdun Protestant Hospital, 6875 Lasalle Blvd., Verdun, P. Q.
C. H. CAHN
Verdun Protestant Hospital, 6875 Lasalle Blvd., Verdun, P. Q.
T. A. BAN
Verdun Protestant Hospital, 6875 Lasalle Blvd., Verdun, P. Q.

Metrics & Citations

Metrics

Citations

Export Citations

If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.

For more information or tips please see 'Downloading to a citation manager' in the Help menu.

Format
Citation style
Style
Copy to clipboard

There are no citations for this item

View Options

Get Access

Login options

Already a subscriber? Access your subscription through your login credentials or your institution for full access to this article.

Personal login Institutional Login Open Athens login
Purchase Options

Purchase this article to access the full text.

PPV Articles - American Journal of Psychiatry

PPV Articles - American Journal of Psychiatry

Not a subscriber?

Subscribe Now / Learn More

PsychiatryOnline subscription options offer access to the DSM-5-TR® library, books, journals, CME, and patient resources. This all-in-one virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources for diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development.

Need more help? PsychiatryOnline Customer Service may be reached by emailing [email protected] or by calling 800-368-5777 (in the U.S.) or 703-907-7322 (outside the U.S.).

View options

PDF/ePub

View PDF/ePub

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

Share

Share

Share article link

Share