American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 101
- Number 6
- May 1945
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages731–738Was Spain a "cradle of psychiatry"? She certainly was not the mother of psychiatry for that honor belongs to Greece. In the middle ages she stressed charity in her Christianity, and for some centuries both the Christians and Mohammedans showed remarkable ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.731Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages739–7481. Prefrontal lobotomy is less successful in schizophrenics than in certain types of patients who have preserved better contact with reality. Nevertheless, the operation offers definite hope for those who are still fighting their disease. 2. While many ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.739Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages749–755The 15 cases reported range in age from 16 to 62, and presented a wide variety of symptoms, from apparent psychotic deterioration to a chronic but non-psychotic tension state. These patients were all considered to have a hopeless prognosis and most of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.749Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages756–759This then is the medical view of the menopausal epoch which transforms the physical and psychic personality of an individual. It is a series of regressions in those functions of growth and maturation which appeared at puberty and are now in a certain way ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.756Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages764–769Intelligence tests were carried out on 93 twins or 186 co-twins. Of these 63 twins were without history of epilepsy or brain injury and 30 had a history of seizures. The average I. Q. for the 149 non-epileptic persons was 108. For the 27 persons with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.764Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages770–7761. A diagnosis of schizophrenia rests partly on the data obtained from the mental status and observation of the patient; and to a greater degree on a history disclosing a faulty development of a special personality developing this particular disease ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.770Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages783–7881. Of over 500 patients who received electric convulsive therapy, 2 exhibited spontaneous generalized convulsions 6½ to 8 weeks after termination of treatment. These 2 patients had never had seizures prior to treatment, nor were there any epileptic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.783Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages789–792The use of demerol hydrochloride in 22 cases receiving artificial fever therapy in the Kettering hypertherm is reported. This represented a total of 165 treatments. The youngest patient was seventeen years and the oldest was sixty-five years of age. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.789Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages793–796It is recommended that interns be given more formal instruction in psychiatry during the fifth year of medical education. While there are many objections, the advantages to the individual seem to outweigh the disadvantages. It is believed that internships ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.793Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages797–800Electroencephalographic observations have been made on 129 patients approximately half of whom received convulsant therapy by means of alternating current and the other half by means of unidirectional fluctuating current. 1. It was found that there was a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.797Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages801–805A positive correlation was observed between the effects of intravenous sodium amytal and of convulsive shock treatment on 40 patients suffering from psychoses without demonstrable organic pathology. The different types of response were illustrated by the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.801Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages806–809Since the introduction of the aversion treatment fifteen months ago at this hospital, 15 percent of an unselected group of patients have remained abstinent for a period of five to fifteen months. An abstinence rate of 55 percent, however, was obtained in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.806Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages810–813The results of exposing normal and psychotic male and female subjects to the same battery of subtests have been compared. The psychotic subjects were then divided into affective and schizophrenic reaction type groups. The peculiarities which [For TABLE ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.101.6.810Publication date: 01 May 1945
Pages821–8231. Electronarcosis is a safe and practical method of treatment for schizophrenia. Over 1000 treatments have been given without fatality or significant complications. 2. The therapeutic effects of electronarcosis in a group of schizophrenic patients were ...
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