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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 103
  • Number 1
  • July 1946

Article

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages26–32

1. The failure of agreement on several aspects of the emotional disturbances of war is cited and some factors considered responsible for this impasse are listed and examined. 2. The rôle of violent stimuli of war conditions on the nervous system is ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.26

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages33–41

1. A personality evaluation, based on the Minnesota Multiphasic Test and the Cornell Selectee Index, has been devised for rapidity and ease of administration and scoring. 2. It gives a qualitative and quantitative estimate of personality maladjustment, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.33

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages42–49

1. Psychosomatic dermatological syndromes (neurodermatitis, psychogenic urticaria, pruritus and hyperhidrosis) should be excluded from induction just as much as chronic asthma, peptic ulcer, functional hypertension, and chronic psychoneurosis whether ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.42

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages50–54

Analyses were made of the reasons given by 2276 general prisoners for their commission of the three most frequently committed military offenses: AWOL, desertion, and misbehavior before the enemy. Large percentages of the AWOL groups and nearly all of the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.50

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages60–64

The unruffled mien of the Asiatic is legendary. When not attributed to constitutional factors, it is traditional for the Occidental to believe that the Oriental, deliberately blocks the natural egress of emotional energy. It is generally supposed that the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.60

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages69–71

1. Physical signs in schizophrenia are listed and classified according to type. 2. A sign of which no previous mention has been found in the literature is described—spasm of the radial arteries. It is very frequent in catatonic schizophrenia, and is of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.69

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages79–86

The incidence was given of complaints among certain groups of selectees as ascertained by the use of a psychiatric questionnaire. A number of observations were made as to the significance of these complaints and their evaluation by the psychiatrist at an ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.79

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages87–90

It is not intended that the material presented should be construed as evidence that soldiers with known emotional illness adjust to the Army with the same relative ease as those without these problems. Certainly they do not. But there is evidence that ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.87

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages91–93

1. The Wechsler-Bellevue test was administered to a heterogeneous group of 128 patients in an overseas general hospital under rather adverse conditions. 2. The test performance and scatter of each patient was analyzed in order to determine diagnostic ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.91

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages94–96

1. Reference is made to the first recorded case of self-or auto-fellatio and a second one is presented. 2. The original patient was overtly homosexual; ours had strong latent homosexual tendencies. 3. The relationship of auto-fellatio, narcissism and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.94

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages97–104

1. A group of non-commissioned officers of rank technician fourth grade or higher hospitalized for psychiatric disorder, compared to a group of controls of similar rank, showed a greater frequency of family history of neurosis and neurotic manifestations ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.97

Publication date: 01 July 1946

Pages105–112

Clinical and Rorschach studies were made on 28 soldiers evidencing a psychopathic personality. The Rorschach scatter for each of these cases is given. Three brief clinical histories are included. The total Rorschach average is given and the criminals, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.1.105

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