American Journal of Psychiatry

One hundred and eighty private psychiatric patients received reserpine or chlorpromazine as well as standard psychiatric therapies. Of this number, 94 were hospitalized patients and 86 were office (ambulatory) patients. Results were disappointing from the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.10.782

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CLINICAL AND ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM INVESTIGATION ON LARGACTIL IN PSYCHOSIS (PRELIMINARY STUDY)

A. SZATMARI

Publication date: 01 April 1956

Pages788–794

1. Experimental investigations have been carried out with Largactil on chronic and acute mental patients. 2. The over-all improvement in chronic cases was 69% and in acute cases 60%. 3. However, the transitory effects in acute cases indicate that while ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.10.788

EVALUATION OF CONVULSIVE AND SUBCONVULSIVE SHOCK THERAPIES UTILIZING A CONTROL GROUP

Publication date: 01 April 1956

Pages795–802

1. Convulsive photoshock is an effective treatment procedure. 2. The convulsive seizure, whether produced by electric or photo-chemical means, has therapeutic value in the treatment of affective psychosis. 3. Periods of induced paroxysmal brain wave ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.10.795

REACTION TIME RESPONSES BY SCHIZOPHRENICS, MENTAL DEFECTIVES AND NORMAL ADULTS

Publication date: 01 April 1956

Pages803–807

A study carried out in a London mental hospital replicated an experiment by Rodnick and Shakow on "set in the schizophrenic as measured by a composite reaction time." Subjects were 25 chronic schizophrenics. A control group of 10 mental defectives and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.10.803

BLOOD PRESSURE RESPONSES OF CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS TO EPINEPHRINE AND MECHOLYL

Publication date: 01 April 1956

Pages808–813

1. The recent work of Funkenstein, Greenblatt, and Solomon on the Epinephrine-Mecholyl Test, and on autonomic nervous system responses of mentally ill patients, has been applied to chronic schizophrenics. 2. Our hypothesis was that if chronic ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.10.808

THE PSYCHOTHERAPY OF THE SUICIDAL PATIENT

Publication date: 01 April 1956

Pages814–820https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.10.814

PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT OF PRISONERS AT THE CALIFORNIA MEDICAL FACILITY

NATHANIEL SHOWSTACK

Publication date: 01 April 1956

Pages821–824https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.10.821

DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF THE PHOBIC REACTION

WALTER I. TUCKER

Publication date: 01 April 1956

Pages825–830

The clinical features of this type of phobic reaction are chronic and acute anxiety with various somatic symptoms and with phobias as a prominent part of the picture. It is a commonly seen neurotic reaction and occurs most frequently in young wives [See ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.10.825