American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 108
- Number 12
- June 1952
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1952
Pages881–8871. Glutamic acid in our study did not produce significant gain in mental functioning. 2. Environmental stimulation as seen in our study seemed to enhance mental functioning.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.12.881Publication date: 01 June 1952
Pages896–900Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25 Sandoz) given orally in single doses as low as 20 micrograms produces depersonalization, derealization, and increased imagery in "normal" individuals. Larger doses are required to produce the same effect in psychotic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.12.896Publication date: 01 June 1952
Pages901–908There appears to be a good deal of confusion in the literature as well as in psychiatric practice about depressive illness, which is a left-over from the era of descriptive psychiatry. Concepts of psychogenesis, endogeny, reactivity, neurosis, psychosis, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.12.901Publication date: 01 June 1952
Pages909–9111. Hebephrenics have a significantly poorer prognosis than the rest of the sample. Except for this, the relationship between diagnosis and prognosis was not found to be significant. 2. A significant relationship exists between mesomorphy and paranoid ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.12.909Publication date: 01 June 1952
Pages912–914The occurrence of 43 reports of auditory hallucinations were accompanied by 19 instances of muscle activity to a moderate to marked degree (grades 2 and 3). There were only 4 instances in which the activity was coincident with the report of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.12.912Publication date: 01 June 1952
Pages918–920An unusual response to the Thematic perception Test is reported in which verse was used as the means of expression. These verses were composed extemporaneously by a patient who had never before shown any verse-making proclivity. Accompanying the report is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.12.918Publication date: 01 June 1952
Pages921–923Sleep paralysis apparently occurs more frequently than reported cases would indicate. It has been mentioned mostly in association with narcolepsy and cataplexy. Psychodynamics involved has received relatively scant attention. The probable role of latent ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.12.921Publication date: 01 June 1952
Pages924–928The case histories of 33 patients released on trial visit after 4½ years of hospitalization were analyzed. Though the patients were 53 years old on the average and had been continuously hospitalized on the average of 12 years, follow-ups averaging 30 ...
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