American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 100
- Number 1
- July 1943
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages14–20The special and prominent place that neuropsychiatry occupies in the Army has been discussed. The problems confronting this specialty have been considered, together with the contributions that can be and have been made. Much of the progress in this field ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.1.14Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages28–33In this presentation of psychiatric problems of a Service Command the deficiencies have been stressed and corrective measures have been outlined. We feel that military psychiatry consists of close integration of the levels of selection, prevention, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.1.28Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages34–40The experience of the mental hygiene unit has been one of progressive expansion and experiment. Methods and procedures have been developed and created under the pressure of new problems and a greatly increased case load. However, the areas of the unit's ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.1.34Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages47–531. The functions of a `staging area' have been described. 2. The importance of adequate neuropsychiatric facilities including an out-patient clinic was emphasized. 3. Of these, the psychiatric out-patient clinic was considered most important. 4. Mandatory ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.1.47Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages54–611. Panic states are defined and conditions favoring their occurrence presented. 2. The acute course and good recovery are noted in an unexpectedly large number. The forms of these psychoses ape all known types, and defy rigid classification. The practice ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.1.54Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages62–71A. This program for mental hygiene appears to have definite practical value in creating rapid normal military adjustment by building up good morale in new trainees. B. Through a reduction in psychosomatic complaints, 122 to 531 man-hours of training time ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.1.62Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages74–79We have endeavored to touch upon certain points in the purpose, organization and operation of the psychiatric unit on a training station, and upon a few of the results and some of the problems—in particular screening, including the use of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.1.74Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages98–1041. Subdural hematoma and effusion are complications of high-explosive blast injuries. 2. Diagnosis of these conditions depends primarily on psychiatric estimation of personality changes and intellectual impairment. Neurological abnormalities are absent in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.1.98Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages120–123The treatment of traumatic neuroses of war should be conceived as a total therapy designed to affect, regulate or modulate all aspects of the psycho-biological organism and its environmental relationships and impacts. Any and every individual, physician, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.1.120A SYSTEM OF COMBINED INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP THERAPY AS USED IN THE MEDICAL PROGRAM FOR MERCHANT SEAMEN
Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages127–130In summing up, it may be reaffirmed that the widely varying personality pictures offerred by merchant seamen necessitates diversity of therapeutic approach. This diversity is likewise demanded by the pressure of time, the need to cover a deal of ground ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.100.1.127Publication date: 01 July 1943
Pages137–141An attempt has been made in this paper to outline the development of the psychiatric service in the Canadian Army. Its organization has been described with particular emphasis on the procedures adopted to meet existing and in some cases unique problems of ...
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