American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 103
- Number 5
- March 1947
Article
Publication date: 01 March 1947
Pages577–586Psychiatry in the Army did a reasonably creditable job primarily because of the devotion and integrity and ability of a small group of men. It failed in a good many ways and some of these failures were because we in psychiatry failed to select and train ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.5.577Publication date: 01 March 1947
Pages614–6211. The attitude of the paranoiac may be viewed as an outgrowth, on the part of the patient, of a defect in his machinery of social cooperation(9). His delusions are a direct expression of his effort nevertheless to attain an efficient adjustment. These ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.5.614Publication date: 01 March 1947
Pages637–643The time has not yet arrived to state in terms of psychodynamics what actually goes on during group psychotherapy meetings. What can be done right now is the collection of observations, the reporting of this material and the exchange of opinion. It is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.5.637Publication date: 01 March 1947
Pages649–652It is our belief that the teaching of undergraduate psychiatry should be directed toward equipping a general practitioner to satisfactorily deal with the most common types of psychiatric disorders that ordinarily do not require care in a psychopathic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.5.649Publication date: 01 March 1947
Pages669–679In view of these findings, it becomes imperative that shock studies concentrate on investigating the readmission and deteriorating aspects of shock therapy. The findings tend to indicate that shock therapy increases the frequency of readmission and thus ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.5.669Publication date: 01 March 1947
Pages689–6961. The effect of pentothal anesthesia was examined in 9 subjects on whom 19 observations were made. Blood was drawn simultaneously from the right and left internal jugular veins and the femoral artery in order to determine the right and left cerebral ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.5.689Publication date: 01 March 1947
Pages700–704Twenty men with peptic ulcers were studied from the psychosomatic point of view. None were psychologically mature. All of them had strong dependent desires which were secondary to either rejection or spoiling in early childhood. One group utilized the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.103.5.700