American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 102
- Number 4
- January 1946
Article
Publication date: 01 January 1946
Pages454–459A study was made of cases observed on a neuropsychiatric service in a rear installation of the Army in the South West Pacific Area. The psychoses were of greatest importance from the point of view of permanent loss of manpower. The possibility that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.4.454Publication date: 01 January 1946
Pages460–465It has been demonstrated how even with a disciplinary activity as the environment, combat-induced emotional disorders will respond without any excess of psychiatric therapy, without group therapy, other than that afforded in group activities, and without ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.4.460Publication date: 01 January 1946
Pages466–4751. The need for recognizing an exhaustion syndrome in acutely excited psychotic patients, in order to be on guard for, and to prevent, sudden death from this complication, is stressed. 2. The exhaustion syndrome in acutely excited psychotic patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.4.466Publication date: 01 January 1946
Pages476–478A simple accessory method is described for the desensitization of startle reaction and, to some degree, of anxiety, in cases of combat fatigue, by the use of moving pictures of battle scenes. Each showing takes only about 15 minutes and on the average 12 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.4.476Publication date: 01 January 1946
Pages479–4821. A new alcoholic terminology was developed to bridge the 'gap' between the social drinker and the chronic alcoholic. 2. About a third of our population shows essentially normal personalities, and psychoses and psychoneuroses are quite rare. 3. Although ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.4.479Publication date: 01 January 1946
Pages483–485When a person, eager to give expression to an impulse, restrains himself till an opportune moment (for example, a runner awaiting the start of a race), one is dealing with an experiment of Nature which duplicates, in principle, Pavlov's experiments on "...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.4.483Publication date: 01 January 1946
Pages486–495This report is an analysis of neurological and psychiatric manifestations observed in 27 patients suffering from verified adenoma of the islet cell apparatus of the pancreas. In addition relevant laboratory data, mainly those related to the glucose ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.102.4.486Publication date: 01 January 1946
Pages500–506The principal points emphasized in the foregoing discussion are as follows: 1. In assessing and dealing with psychiatric problems at induction, in training and in action the army psychiatrist deals fundamentally with behaviour patterns which have been ...
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