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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 109
  • Number 2
  • August 1952

Article

Publication date: 01 August 1952

Pages102–107

An 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.109.2.102

Publication date: 01 August 1952

Pages108–111

This 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.109.2.108

Publication date: 01 August 1952

Pages112–119

1. 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.109.2.112

Publication date: 01 August 1952

Pages120–127

1. 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.109.2.120

Publication date: 01 August 1952

Pages131–138

As 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

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