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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 111
  • Number 6
  • December 1954

Article

Publication date: 01 December 1954

Pages401–409

1. That many nonpsychiatric physicians are confused about the methods, goals, and effectiveness of psychotherapy is in large part a reflection of the muddled state of psychiatrists themselves about the nature and status of their specialty. 2. The most ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.6.401

Publication date: 01 December 1954

Pages410–419

1. The goal of dynamic psychotherapy with schizophrenics is the same as that of intensive psychotherapy with other mental disturbances, i. e. to help both ambulatory and hospitalized patients gain awareness of and curative insight into the history and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.6.410

Publication date: 01 December 1954

Pages434–444

The methodology of a number of prognostic studies has been critically considered, with only incidental reference to the substantive content. The latter has validity only when principles of the scientific method have been applied in deriving and evaluating ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.6.434

Publication date: 01 December 1954

Pages454–458

1. The early clinical symptoms of 40 patients with cerebral atrophy subsequently demonstrated by pneumoencephalogram are reviewed. In 25 cases the earliest abnormalities noted were not memory loss or impairment, but paranoid ideas, depression, neurosis, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.6.454

Publication date: 01 December 1954

Pages459–465

1. It is quite obvious, from the favorable positions accorded childhood, adolescence, and the early years of maturity as contrasted with the negative perspective held toward the later years of life, that both groups of patients generally view old age with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.6.459

Publication date: 01 December 1954

Pages466–469

Insulin coma therapy has been used at this hospital since October 1951. Up to June, 1954, 89 patients had received a full course of therapy. A very closely matched group of control patients was obtained, with following conclusions: 1. The insulin coma ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.111.6.466

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