American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 110
- Number 10
- April 1954
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1954
Pages721–724The case of a 25-year-old infantryman who became a neuropsychiatric casualty in the Korean War is presented, to permit illustration of the application of current military psychiatric concepts, method of communication, and discussion of their rationale.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.721Publication date: 01 April 1954
Pages725–731Effective techniques of combat psychotherapy have been evolved through experiences gained in World War I, World War II, and the Korean campaign. They include the following basic principles: (1) the location or level where treatment is performed should be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.725Publication date: 01 April 1954
Pages732–739The reaction patterns of a group of American prisoners of the Korean conflict, in response to their uniquely traumatizing experience, have been described. These were correlated with the sequence of behavior between repatriation and arrival in San ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.732Publication date: 01 April 1954
Pages740–7471. The literature pertaining to management of neuropsychiatric patients during transportation by air is reviewed. 2. Methods employed by the military services including standard operating procedures are presented. 3. Reactions to air transportation of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.740Publication date: 01 April 1954
Pages748–7531. Psychiatric screening procedures of 2 large recruit training centers have been described, and a revised screening plan suggested. 2. Exception is taken to the premise that brief psychiatric screening is of value in predicting possible psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.748Publication date: 01 April 1954
Pages759–764A survey of the prevalency of patients with mental illness who were under treatment in New Haven was analyzed according to religion, national origin, and immigrational status. It was found that psychoneurotic disorders were more frequent among Jews ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.759Publication date: 01 April 1954
Pages765–769CO2 inhalation therapy produces favorable effects in a variety of neuroses and psychosomatic conditions, especially in anxiety states, phobic reactions, certain ill defined tension states, and conditions like spastic colitis and migraine headaches. It ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.765Publication date: 01 April 1954
Pages770–7731. Simultaneous comparisons were made between the mental state and the EEG changes induced by intravenous barbiturates in subjects with and without organic brain disease. 2. Normal subjects did not become disoriented following intravenous sodium amytal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.770Publication date: 01 April 1954
Pages774–776After twenty years of research with insulin treatment in schizophrenia the published evidence is inconclusive and contradictory. Wide variations in remission and recovery have been reported but the number of published control studies is meagre. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.774Publication date: 01 April 1954
Page785The reported ability of methylene blue to reactivate xanthine oxidase inhibited by antabuse in vitro has been tried clinically as a means of terminating an antabuse-alcohol reaction. Although there was some subjective relief in 2 patients following the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.785Publication date: 01 April 1954
Pages786–787This paper presents a patient—the first, we believe—who, after cardiac surgery, successfully endured both insulin coma and electroconvulsive therapies. We feel that with the rapid increase in cardiac surgery and the resultant new way of living, other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.10.786Past Issues
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