American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 114
- Number 11
- May 1958
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1958
Pages961–9691. A preliminary report of the first 150 interviewed subjects in a long-term (30-year) follow-up study has been presented. This report emphasizes the adult psychiatric diagnoses and their relation to childhood problems. 2. Patients referred to a child ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.11.961Publication date: 01 May 1958
Pages970–976Three years of work in a research project to evaluate a community mental health program have been reviewed. Problems in hypothesis formation, research design and instrument validation have been discussed. Positive correlations have been found between the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.11.970Publication date: 01 May 1958
Pages977–985The amount and organization of space on a psychiatric ward is one element determining the possibilities of the treatment program. Systematic observations by the Architectural Study Project of the movement of patients in 7 psychiatric wards of 5 general ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.11.977Publication date: 01 May 1958
Pages986–992The Rehabilitation Project of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center has been based on the conceptions that mentally ill patients have untapped potentialities for successful adjustment, and that optimal work in the field would require mobilization of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.11.986Publication date: 01 May 1958
Pages993–997Homemaker service contributes substantially to the rehabilitation of mothers of young or adolescent children who require, may require, or have required psychiatric hospital care. It also contributes substantially to preventive psychiatry through ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.11.993Publication date: 01 May 1958
Pages998–1001This paper deals with group therapy of 8 adolescent boys in a mental hospital. The group was dominated by the impulse-ridden acting out destructive members. How to keep the group going with these boys who were bent on destroying it became the therapists' ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.11.998Publication date: 01 May 1958
Pages1002–1010The sedation threshold is a determination of the amount of intravenous sodium amytal required to produce certain EEG and speech changes. This paper presents data showing the relationship between the threshold and psychiatric diagnosis in 750 consecutively ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.11.1002Publication date: 01 May 1958
Pages1015–1017Recent trends in the psychiatric literature reveal that disillusion with the insulin coma treatment of schizophrenia has steadily spread in the past 4 years. Since the method has no rationale, and since even its empirical basis now cannot withstand ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.11.1015Publication date: 01 May 1958
Pages1023–1027The difficulties and mental disturbances of Finnish university and college students are in most instances due to personal factors, retarded or otherwise disturbed emotional growth and maturation interwoven with family relations, and insufficient ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.11.1023Publication date: 01 May 1958
Pages1036–10371. Judicious management of the iproniazid dosage and of the patient's activities so as to prevent syncope, makes usage of the drug safer, avoids the majority of reported adverse side-effects, and still provides the blood stream and spinal fluid with a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.11.1036Publication date: 01 May 1958
Page1040A case of a patient who was treated with 6,400 mg. chlorpromazine daily, in spite of two previous attacks of agranulocytosis, is presented.
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