American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 113
- Number 5
- November 1956
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1956
Pages409–415The ingestion of hallucinogenic mushrooms by Siberian tribes of the Kamchatka peninsula and by Indians of the Mexican highlands has been carried out in ritual and orgy for centuries. Ødman and Schübeler have advanced the hypothesis that the furious rage ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.409Publication date: 01 November 1956
Pages423–427After a brief enumeration of key-references to the literature on stress in psychiatry, the following specific problems are discussed on the basis of personal experiments: 1. An "operational definition" of stress, based on measurable indicators of this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.423Publication date: 01 November 1956
Pages435–442Consideration of experimental studies on animals and humans indicates that a number of different phenomena are ordinarily included in the general concept of "anxiety." The varieties of precipitating events and the varieties of responses are sufficiently ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.435Publication date: 01 November 1956
Pages462–463Two cases of bleeding from the gastro-intestinal tract during the course of reserpine administration in the treatment of mental illness are described. The fact that both patients had been under hospital observation for several years without previous ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.462Past Issues
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