American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 109
- Number 2
- August 1952
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1952
Pages102–107An experiment in medical education at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School has been described, namely, "The Family Health Advisor Service." This has become another educational device, which facilitates learning through the implementation of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.2.102Publication date: 01 August 1952
Pages108–111This study consists of detailed information about 750 of the 17, 120 patients served by the Northern New Jersey Mental Hygiene Clinics in the 25 years of their existence. The sampling consisted of the first 250 cases closed in 1930, 1940, and 1950, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.2.108Publication date: 01 August 1952
Pages112–1191. A case of a superannuated man, free of dementia despite his advanced age, is presented to illustrate that there is not necessarily a direct relationship between age and dementia. This man, on detailed study, was found to have high intellectual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.2.112Publication date: 01 August 1952
Pages120–1271. When indicated, in order to facilitate rapid, radical, short-term therapy, patients may be hypnotized and then treated, sometimes successfully, both by the more usual psychotherapeutic techniques and by techniques made possible only as a result of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.2.120Publication date: 01 August 1952
Pages131–138As part of a larger study of the relations among the primary symptoms of schizophrenia, this report is concerned with the attention disturbance. A reaction time technique employing 2 procedures, a regular and an irregular, was used to measure attention. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.2.131