American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 104
- Number 10
- April 1948
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1948
Pages593–5991. Glutamic acid accelerates mental functioning in human subjects. 2. The acceleration is general and is not restricted to segments of the intelligence and personality of the individual. 3. The greatest improvement in intelligence and performance test ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.10.593Publication date: 01 April 1948
Pages600–6071. Clinical results. Tridione was administered to 75 patients suffering from epilepsy. Clinically, tridione appears to be most effective in cases of epilepsy with spastic cerebral palsies of the milder type; 65% of this group were improved. This is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.10.600Publication date: 01 April 1948
Pages608–612A report is made on 59 cases of acute anxiety treated with ergotamine tartrate, 37 cases treated with ergonovine maleate, and 36 cases treated as controls with calcium lactate. Results are given therapeutically and it is indicated that, while these drugs ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.10.608Publication date: 01 April 1948
Pages613–617This experience may be discussed in the following terms: 1. It demonstrates that schizophrenic individuals can be led into psychotherapeutically effective relationships with each other in a group setting, through the exercise of a special type of group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.10.613Publication date: 01 April 1948
Pages623–626An attempt has been made to supplement psychiatric treatment of patients by concurrent group psychotherapy of their relatives. Weekly discussion meetings have been held of 4 to 30 relatives attending on general invitation or selected because of particular ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.10.623Publication date: 01 April 1948
Pages627–631A psychotherapeutic team consisting of a male psychiatrist, a female psychiatric social worker, and a male artist, operating in a military setting, selected a group of patients who were willing to draw from the psychiatric section of a general hospital. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.10.627Publication date: 01 April 1948
Pages642–646The development of methods of conducting the initial interview are of strategic importance in the treatment of the patient. This includes the effect of the reactions of the doctor on his techniques and on the patient. The teaching of these factors by the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.10.642Publication date: 01 April 1948
Pages647–652In general it was possible for the psychologist, on the basis of psychological test results, to distinguish between 3 groups of nursery school children rated by the psychiatrist as adequately adjusted, moderately maladjusted, and severely maladjusted. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.10.647Publication date: 01 April 1948
Pages653–660On the basis of the examination of a number of more or less typical instances of usage, it is inferred that to say of a given syndrome, case of disordered function, or set of pathological changes that it is "psychogenic" is to say that among its causal ...
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