American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 114
- Number 1
- July 1957
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1957
Pagesxv-3–9As I close this dissertation, I am aware that I have ranged far afield, with thoughts extending lightly in the clouds; yet all of me is planted solidly with my respected colleagues in the mental hospital, the scene of our labors. Earl Bond spoke feelingly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.1.xv-3Publication date: 01 July 1957
Pages14–24Work in progress centered about the isolation of taraxein from the serum of schizophrenic patients and its administration to monkeys and human volunteers is presented. The taraxein was extracted from a variety of schizophrenic patients in 4 institutions ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.1.14Publication date: 01 July 1957
Pages25–321. A study of white and Negro patients hospitalized for mental illness in the State of Virginia shows a higher ratio for Negro patients when the rate per 100,000 population of respective races is considered. Also there is a tremendous increase of Negro ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.1.25Publication date: 01 July 1957
Pages33–41This study describes a group of outpatients who had threatened or attempted suicide and were brought to the attention of military psychiatrists. Data are presented comparing the characteristics of this group with a similar number of nonsuicidal patients ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.1.33Publication date: 01 July 1957
Pages42–46The concept of a Comprehensive Care Clinic, to which consultants in the medical specialities are attached, is relatively new. The part of such programs that is unique, and has the greatest implication for medical education in general and psychiatric ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.1.42Publication date: 01 July 1957
Pages47–53Data have been presented to show that, in a sample of 91 school children and a sample of 35 clinic cases, a reliable, positive relationship exists between the number, frequency, duration, and severity of the symptoms reported by a child's mother and the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.1.47Publication date: 01 July 1957
Pages54–631. A neuropsychiatric study of 108 hospitalized patients with acute poliomyelitis was made during the Boston epidemic of 1955. Of these, 46 patients were in respirators, 48 had paralytic poliomyelitis not requiring a respirator, and 14 had non-paralytic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.1.54Publication date: 01 July 1957
Pages68–72The psychotic patient, no matter what his underlying character structure may be, reacts against deprivation with the defense of a break with reality. Intensive EN quickly produces a state in which gratification of infantile needs becomes the basis for ...
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