American Journal of Psychiatry

It is recognized that different associations, or no associations, might have been found if unhospitalized cases had been added to the study. Insofar as this may be true, the identification of characteristics associated with hospitalized cases may not ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.12.1063

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PERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL FACTORS IN MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS

Publication date: 01 June 1957

Pages1069–1074

While it has been demonstrated that accident and non-accident subjects in the present population of young airmen differ significantly from one another; and while psychological measures can be used to predict accident status for this population with a high ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.12.1069

TESTING THE VALIDITY OF PERSONALITY PROFILES IN PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESSES

FLOYD O. RING

Publication date: 01 June 1957

Pages1075–1080

Persons with some illnesses can be picked out from those with others with a good percentage of accuracy by personality interview study alone. Some of the personality profiles as described by various investigators (as interpreted and/or perhaps modified by ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.12.1075

THE ROLE OF THE SYMPTOM IN PSYCHOSOMATIC DISEASE—CHANGES FOLLOWING REMOVAL OF A SYMPTOM BY EXTRAPSYCHIC MEANS

Publication date: 01 June 1957

Pages1081–1088

1. Thirty patients with peptic ulcer were interviewed concerning psychoneurotic, psychosomatic, and behavioral symptoms before and after hospital treatment. 2. Many of the patients (21 of 30) showed changes, some profound and some very subtle, ranging ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.12.1081

A SUGGESTED APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF NARCOTIC ADDICTION

Publication date: 01 June 1957

Pages1089–1094https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.12.1089

CHANGING CONCEPTS OF THERAPY IN A VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MENTAL HYGIENE CLINIC

E. PUMPIAN-MINDLIN

Publication date: 01 June 1957

Pages1095–1099https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.12.1095

HALLUCINATORY EPILEPSY: COMPLEX HALLUCINATIONS AS FOCAL SEIZURES

Publication date: 01 June 1957

Pages1100–1102-1https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.12.1100

SOME IMPLICATIONS OF CONDITIONAL REFLEX STUDIES FOR PLACEBO RESEARCH

Publication date: 01 June 1957

Pages1103–1107

Three separate groups of conditional reflex studies were presented to illustrate their implication for the general problem of reaction to placebo. The first demonstrates how the effect of a person can be conditioned and thereby makes it possible for the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.12.1103

THE CONTROL OF ACTING OUT IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPY OF DELINQUENTS

Publication date: 01 June 1957

Pages1108–1114

1. Acting out is antithetical to psychotherapy. 2. It is a form of behavior that is particularly prominent, if not central, in the delinquent. 3. Attitudes and activities of individuals and agencies that are actively and concurrently involved in some form ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.12.1108