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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 109
  • Number 6
  • December 1952

Article

Publication date: 01 December 1952

Pages401–410

1. Heretofore it has been assumed that the manpower pool of the country was bottomless and induction screening was to a great extent designed to eliminate the "bad risks" and to minimize the incidence of breakdown. However, the experience of World War II ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.6.401

Publication date: 01 December 1952

Pages413–420

The function of definitions is to make clear and unambiguous the meanings of the terms we use. When precisely formulated and conscientiously followed, definitions in turn make our reasoning more exact and our communication more successful. Unless its ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.6.413

Publication date: 01 December 1952

Pages421–428

1. A 3-to-15-year follow-up medical, neurological, psychiatric, and social-adjustment study has been conducted on 20 patients who were admitted to the children's ward of the psychiatric division of Bellevue Hospital. 2. The social adjustment and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.6.421

Publication date: 01 December 1952

Pages433–438

The mode of action of the nonconvulsive current is still speculative. Only a small portion of the total energy reaches the intra-cranial contents and this apparently spreads through the cerebrum and deeper structures. Whether the effects noted are the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.6.433

Publication date: 01 December 1952

Pages439–443

1. One hundred and two long-term schizophrenics were treated with ECT during a period of 15 months. 2. Eight were released from the hospital; 8 are expected to be released; 35 showed marked improvement; 20 showed improvement in attitude and behavior; and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.6.439

Publication date: 01 December 1952

Pages444–449

Observations are reported on some of the psychological stresses of life in the Arctic, and reactions to them. The importance of distinguishing between situations involving direct exposure to climatic stress, and those in which such exposure is avoided, is ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.6.444

Publication date: 01 December 1952

Pages455–458

It has been pointed out that hostility demonstrated toward an institution is frequently seen to be not a true hostility toward the hospital, but a displacement or projection of hostility toward the relative currently hospitalized. When this hostility ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.109.6.455

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