American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 101
- Number 5
- March 1945
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1945
Pages585–593General paresis occurs in senility with considerable frequency. In the State of New York, about 10% of paretics admitted for the first time to state hospitals are 60 years old or more. The incubation of the senile type of paresis is generally either ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.5.585Publication date: 01 March 1945
Pages594–599A peculiar type of behavior disorder consisting of an apparent conflict between the desired and the actually performed act is described in 2 epileptics following partial and complete callosal section. The psychobiological and psychoneurological aspects of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.5.594Publication date: 01 March 1945
Pages608–613Out of the renewed interest in the convalescent hospital patient brought about by the necessities of war, it may be anticipated that increased attention will be given in civilian practice after the war to reconditioning. The reconditioning program begins ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.5.608Publication date: 01 March 1945
Pages614–6181. A mental hygiene program for the psychiatrically unfit soldier returning directly to civilian life has been described. 2. This program employs group psychotherapy combined with personal interviews to: (a) present an essentially physiological etiology ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.5.614Publication date: 01 March 1945
Pages625–6281. Mental conditions were responsible for 15% of the medical discharges from the Royal Canadian Navy. This figure has remained constant. 2. Psychoneurotic reactions were by far the most frequent psychiatric casualties observed. More than half of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.5.625Publication date: 01 March 1945
Pages629–634A method and concrete plan of attack on the rising tide of maladjustment on one of its many fronts is presented. This plan assumes an aggressive rather than a passive, waiting approach. It emphasizes prevention, and the management of mild conditions, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.5.629Publication date: 01 March 1945
Pages635–6421. An integrated medico-psychological program has been developed at the United States Coast Guard Academy. 2. Most of the work has been concerned with the evaluation of officer candidates. 3. Individual interviews by psychiatrist-psychologist teams, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.5.635Publication date: 01 March 1945
Pages650–654The figures indicate that it has been possible to rehabilitate a large percentage of men when the object is limited to a return to a former occupation to which on the whole they were well adjusted.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.5.650Publication date: 01 March 1945
Pages661–667More than 4,000 selective service violators have been convicted. Four hundred and sixty cases were studied. Of these 188 were patients receiving treatment; most of whom appear to have been mentally ill at the time of their violation and conviction. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.5.661Publication date: 01 March 1945
Pages682–689According to our conception of homosexuality, it is a relative condition, just as dextrocardia and blondness are relative. Consequently, in describing a peculiar personality deviation, to be known as the homosexual personality, we are cognizant of degrees ...
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