American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 111
- Number 5
- November 1954
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1954
Pages321–331In a study of the therapeutic successes and failures of 35 physicians, members of the resident staff of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic between 1944 and 1952, it has been found that success with one type of patient does not correlate very highly with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.5.321Publication date: 01 November 1954
Pages332–336The syndrome of arteriosclerotic muscular rigidity results from a partial involvement of various systems (fronto-ponto-cerebellar tract, pyramidal and extrapyramidal system), rather than from an affection of 1 or 2 special cerebral centers.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.5.332Publication date: 01 November 1954
Pages343–352Since improvement under psychotherapy is not a unitary phenomenon, progress in studying the effectiveness of psychotherapy depends on the use of carefully defined and generally agreed upon criteria of improvement. In the present state of knowledge such ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.5.343Publication date: 01 November 1954
Pages353–357A statistical analysis was made of the significance of 18 psychiatric and sociologic factors in improvement and unimprovement of 538 mental patients following transorbital lobotomy. The results indicated that 57% showed improvement while 43% failed to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.5.353Publication date: 01 November 1954
Pages358–3631. The planning, modus operandi, and initial psychiatric findings and impressions of Operations Little Switch and Big Switch are discussed. 2. Reference is made to the Communist Indoctrination Program (brain washing); its methods and effectiveness are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.5.358Publication date: 01 November 1954
Pages371–378We are perhaps now in psychiatry where physicians treating infectious disease stood before the days of antibiotics. We have relatively little in the way of weapons to attack the disease process directly. But we have acquired a vast and important knowledge ...
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