American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 112
- Number 8
- February 1956
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1956
Pages577–583Our review of legal phraseology and terms serves to highlight the confusion, prudery, and rigid tradition that surround sodomy and related acts in substantive and procedural law. First, the ubiquitous use of the term, "against nature, unnatural" is traced ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.8.577Publication date: 01 February 1956
Pages584–590In this paper an attempt has been made to describe some of the psychodynamic factors in the homosexual pedophile. A description of the general research setting is followed by a discussion of 4 general formulations of the psychodynamics of the sexual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.8.584Publication date: 01 February 1956
Pages591–598I believe that we are justified in making certain deductions as to the attitudes of the judges of the criminal courts of Baltimore in the cases of homosexual and heterosexual offenders. For the most part, the same general trends can be seen in regard to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.8.591Publication date: 01 February 1956
Pages599–606The investigative data available at this time may be summarized as follows: 1. In comparing the family backgrounds of preadolescent schizophrenia case (52 twins and 50 singletons under age 15) with those of a comparable adult sample (691 twin index cases),...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.8.599Publication date: 01 February 1956
Pages607–612Sixty-three autistic children have been reevaluated at a mean age of 15 years after a mean follow-up period of 9 years. Almost one third have achieved at least a moderate social adjustment. The prognosis has been shown to vary significantly with the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.8.607Publication date: 01 February 1956
Pages613–618The prenatal and paranatal records of children with behavior disorders born in Baltimore after 1939 show significantly more complications of pregnancy and delivery, and prematurity than their matched controls. The non-mechanical abnormalities such as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.8.613Publication date: 01 February 1956
Pages619–6231. Thirteen schizophrenic female patients from among consecutive new admissions were given 5 c. c. coramine in conjunction with their regular series of EST, and a roughly comparable group of 13 patients received saline injections with their EST. 2. These ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.8.619Publication date: 01 February 1956
Pages624–626A case is described of a 34-year-old male who expired suddenly during electroshock treatment. His death was ascribed to congestion of the trachea and main bronchi with viscous pus-like mucous material. In any possibility, his death cannot be ascribed to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.8.624Publication date: 01 February 1956
Pages627–636The number and percentage of aged persons in the population is increasing and will continue to increase for many years. The percentage of such persons admitted to public mental hospitals is increasing much more rapidly than their percentage in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.8.627Publication date: 01 February 1956
Pages640–6461. By applying technical methods and mathematical principles to the survey of Gestalt in handwriting the shift from solely intuitional comprehension to scientific testing and practical evaluation is begun. 2. The tests are performed with the help of a map ...
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