American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 113
- Number 1
- July 1956
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1956
Pages10–15Psychoneuroses may be considered as psychophysiologic tension states. Treatment consists of a combination of physical and psychological methods. General principles for use of sedatives are given. Methods for effective, short-term psychotherapy of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.1.10Publication date: 01 July 1956
Pages16–21This paper reports the findings in the treatment of 300 nonhospitalized private psychiatric patients, 150 of whom were treated with Thorazine and 150 with Serpasil. Their illnesses were diagnosed acute and chronic psychoneuroses, schizophrenic reactions, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.1.16Publication date: 01 July 1956
Pages22–26Twenty-five hyperkinetic, emotionally disturbed children were treated with chlorpromazine for periods lasting from 4 to 16 months. They also served as their own controls by receiving placebo medication for 4 to 6 weeks during some phase of treatment. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.1.22Publication date: 01 July 1956
Pages32–35Electroconvulsive therapy was found definitely harmful to patients suffering from active pulmonary tuberculosis. Transorbital lobotomy was found to be an effective substitute for shock therapy. The prolonged relief of mental tension, anxiety, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.1.32Publication date: 01 July 1956
Pages41–441. Private practice of psychiatry on this continent is, in fact, a combination of two quite different types of practice. On the one hand, about one-fourth of such practitioners are substantially pure psychotherapists. They do not willingly make calls, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.1.41Publication date: 01 July 1956
Pages45–51A method of analyzing responses to comic cartoons is presented as a means of studying social comprehension. The method was applied to 4 groups of patients: chronic schizophrenic, early schizophrenic, depressive, and neurotic. No group showed impairment in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.1.45Publication date: 01 July 1956
Pages52–54This study provides evidence that all research workers are not uniformly successful in their evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of new drugs. It is not the province of this paper to enter into factors that are responsible for the wide variations of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.1.52Publication date: 01 July 1956
Pages55–591. Preliminary findings suggest that the member-employee program is of value as a method of rehabilitation. It is of special value in motivating chronic institutional patients to work toward their own rehabilitation. 2. In certain instances it makes a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.1.55Publication date: 01 July 1956
Pages71–741. Intensive psychotherapy can be integrated into the therapeutic armamentarium of a general psychiatric hospital which is not committed to a specific treatment method. 2. The utilization of a second psychiatrist is necessary. This psychiatrist is the ...
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