American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 109
- Number 5
- November 1952
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1952
Pages321–329An attempt is made to give some of the philosophy and methods that underlie present-day Japanese psychiatry. A brief discussion of psychosis is given. The classification of "shinkeishitsu" with its subgroupings of neurasthenic states, obsessive-phobic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.5.321Publication date: 01 November 1952
Pages336–3431.The experience of a year with the Federal Security Agency Draft Act incorporated into the State Law of Utah in May, 1951, indicates that this "model law" has distinct advantages and, in general, has proved itself to be efficient and workable. 2. Two ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.5.336Publication date: 01 November 1952
Pages356–360An attempt has been made to present the successful treatment of one case of anorexia nervosa and to bring together some of the psychiatric, physiological, and surgical aspects of that case. After 7 years' duration of the illness, the patient was in danger ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.5.356Publication date: 01 November 1952
Pages361–366Aside from the recognized indications, ECT was found to be of decisive help in conversion depressions, a syndrome in which somatic, chiefly visceral autonomic features mask the phasic depressive core. Similarly favorable responses were achieved in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.5.361Publication date: 01 November 1952
Pages367–374It was attempted to study some effects of nonconvulsive electric-stimulation as they are reflected in psychological test performances. The experimental group consisted of 19 white, male patients of a veterans hospital who were diagnosed as severe neurotic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.5.367Publication date: 01 November 1952
Pages378–379Electroconvulsive therapy, producing grand mal seizures, has been successfully given to a patient with a 6-cm. aortic isograft of one year without evident injury to the isograft and with marked psychological benefit to the patient.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.5.378