American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 108
- Number 4
- October 1951
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1951
Pages250–257From my brief survey it is clear that the whole problem of the sex offender is a most complicated one and involves many fields. All attempts at better diagnosis, treatment, and prevention will require many years of cooperative research by scientists from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.4.250Publication date: 01 October 1951
Pages258–263Three new quantitative methods for studying process and outcome in psychotherapy have been discussed: first, the rating of protocols from electrical transcription of cases; second, the utilization of various control methods; and third, the employment of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.4.258Publication date: 01 October 1951
Pages264–2701. The immediate results of ECT are generally excellent, providing marked relief of symptoms in many psychoses. This relief amounts to a recovery in a high percentage of depressed patients. 2. A 10-year follow-up of 65 patients in whom depression was the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.4.264Publication date: 01 October 1951
Pages271–276A graphic method of presenting the functional efficiency or evaluation of a mental hospital has been developed in the form of a Profile. A few tables of statistics have been developed to point up the picture of facilities, personnel, and operation of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.4.271Publication date: 01 October 1951
Pages280–288Ability to form a conditional response to a slightly painful stimulus was tested in 10 patients before, during, and after electric shock therapy. Fifty-two experiments revealed decline in performance in 6 patients. In one the deficit disappeared within 24 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.4.280Publication date: 01 October 1951
Pages289–294Grief reactions in later life have been studied in 25 subjects, 23 of whom attended an old age counselling service. The most striking features in this group were: a relative paucity of overt grief and of conscious guilt feelings, a preponderance of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.4.289Publication date: 01 October 1951
Pages295–297In order to study the possibility of demonstrating the presence of the morbid gene among the offspring of patients with Huntington's chorea by electroencephalography before its clinical manifestation, a total of 25 such offspring were submitted to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.108.4.295Publication date: 01 October 1951
Pages303–3081. A study has been made of 75 patients admitted to the New York Hospital—Westchester Division between January 1, 1930, and January 1, 1950, for the treatment of drug addiction. 2. The primary drug of addiction was morphine in 34, barbiturates in 24, and ...
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