American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 110
- Number 2
- August 1953
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1953
Pages84–92An attempt has been made to combine a culturally powerful incentive common to mental hospital environment and society with the motivational system of certain hospitalized psychiatric patients to effect a successful rehabilitation. This has taken the form ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.2.84Publication date: 01 August 1953
Pages93–1031. The clinical, experimental, and theoretical literature on carbon dioxide oxygen inhalation therapy (CDT) is reviewed and critically evaluated. 2. The over-all improvement rate in 238 nonpsychotic patients treated with CDT, collected from the literature,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.2.93Publication date: 01 August 1953
Pages110–114The writer has attempted to spotlight some of the problems facing the recently trained psychiatrist who may be serving a period of active duty in the military forces. He has noted such problems as the authoritarian structure of the military service, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.2.110Publication date: 01 August 1953
Pages115–118The arterial oxygen saturation in electroshock therapy has been determined with the aid of a photoelectric oximeter. The following observations were made: 1. Electroshock causes rather severe, but transitory, hypoxemia. 2. Impaired respiration after the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.2.115Publication date: 01 August 1953
Pages119–123Five cases of methemoglobinemia resulting from the accidental substitution of sodium nitrite for potassium citrate in the gavage mixture given to terminate insulin coma treatment are recorded. The simple and efficacious treatment by intravenous injection ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.2.119Publication date: 01 August 1953
Pages124–129Eleven chronically hospitalized schizophrenic patients, in good physical and nutritional health, were studied by hourly eosinophile and lymphocyte counts after injections of saline and ACTH on consecutive days. Wide variations in the fasting levels of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.2.124Publication date: 01 August 1953
Pages133–138A "Prejudice Test" was given to 392 state mental hospital employees representing every work group. The attendant personnel made up approximately 67% of all those taking the test. Correlations were done on age, IQ, education, and length of employment in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.2.133Publication date: 01 August 1953
Pages143–152We have presented a balanced concept of child training based on our observations of the dynamics of life in the retarded-child family and the known data of animal experimentation. Since the preservation of a culture depends on the efficacy of transmission ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.2.143Publication date: 01 August 1953
Pages153–1541. As Kalinowsky and Hoch indicate, fractures of the scapula are rare, but they do occur. 2. A loud snapping noise, such as the "snapping of a stepped-on bent twig" is considered a diagnostic sign for scapular fractures. 3. As a variety of complications ...
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