American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 105
- Number 11
- May 1949
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1949
Pages801–810Since time immemorial society has dealt with the problem of poverty on a moral basis. Success has been honorific and failure ignominious, and so handicapped persons failing to make the social grade have been judged by the method of moral evaluation. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.105.11.801Publication date: 01 May 1949
Pages811–814l. One thousand psychotic veterans were given electric shock therapy, insulin shock therapy, or a combination of the two in sequence following a period of observation during which they had revealed no tendency toward spontaneous improvement. 2. The large ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.105.11.811Publication date: 01 May 1949
Pages821–824This brief résumé ends with one warning. Weir Mitchell developed a very successful treatment of neurosis in the American Civil War after he had observed that "those who had fought gallantly with Sheridan and Grant" could become "as hysterically emotional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.105.11.821Publication date: 01 May 1949
Pages825–828l. Twenty-four patients with vertebral fractures occurring during the course of convulsive therapy were studied approximately 10 years after the initial lesion. 2. Four patients complain of occasional mild, nondisabling backaches. The rest are symptom-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.105.11.825Publication date: 01 May 1949
Pages829–833Changes in salt and water balance in patients given ECT are mediated by various mechanisms. Apparently increased secretion of 3-ketosteroids occurs in patients who show clinical benefit after shock; however, this is only a side reaction and is important ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.105.11.829Publication date: 01 May 1949
Pages834–839Myanesin produces muscle relaxation and reversible paralysis. Small doses of myanesin greatly modify the response to electric stimulation in the rabbit. The convulsive threshold, in rabbits, is raised and the tonic phase eliminated for periods up to an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.105.11.834Publication date: 01 May 1949
Pages840–842It is concluded (1) that the index score as a measure of Wechsler-Bellevue scatter empirically derived for this study shows a significant difference between normals (not patients) and neurotics, and between neurotics and psychotics; (2) that an estimate ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.105.11.840Publication date: 01 May 1949
Pages843–848A control group of 757 personnel and a test group of 1,875 neuropsychiatric patients were surveyed for symptoms and signs of allergy. In order to validate the material, the survey was made when an allergen (ragweed pollen) was a common environmental ...
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