American Journal of Psychiatry

The thesis of this essay is that most problems of psychiatric nosology, as currently formulated, are refractory to solution because of certain basic ambiguities in psychiatric concepts and operations. Scientific clarity and progress in this area depend ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.405

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PSYCHIATRY IN POST-WAR GERMANY

H. EHRHARDT

Publication date: 01 November 1957

Pages414–416https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.414

AN ENGLISH VIEW OF AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY

MICHAEL SHEPHERD

Publication date: 01 November 1957

Pages417–420https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.417

CORRECTION AND RETRIBUTION IN THE CRIMINAL LAW

LAWRENCE FRIEDMAN

Publication date: 01 November 1957

Pages421–423

Dr. Board's objectives can only tend toward a happier society. His failure to distinguish between suggestion and analysis prejudices his worthwhile objectives in the following ways: 1. It leaves him unarmed against the resistences of society which go ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.421

REPLY TO DR. FRIEDMAN

RICHARD G. BOARD

Publication date: 01 November 1957

Pages424–425https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.424

SOME PSYCHIATRIC NOTES ON THE ANDREA DORIA DISASTER

Publication date: 01 November 1957

Pages426–432

We have presented observations concerning the phases of initial psychic shock and of recovery; prejudicies and paranoid attitudes; the problems of communications, of leadership and of children in disasters; the role of official identification lists; ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.426

GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY: INDIVIDUAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS IN A GROUP PROCESS

MARVIN K. OPLER

Publication date: 01 November 1957

Pages433–438https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.433

NORMAL DEVIATIONS FROM REALITY

CLAUDE C. BOWMAN

Publication date: 01 November 1957

Pages439–443

The foregoing discussion is concerned with normal deviations from reality in contemporary social life and the useful purposes which these serve. The author is not in agreement with those who believe that good mental health must be based upon realistic ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.439

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ATTITUDES TOWARD AGING AND THE DELINQUENCIES OF YOUTH

MAURICE E. LINDEN

Publication date: 01 November 1957

Pages444–448

In the awesome network of social forces that relate to character and behavior distortion the hypothetical factor herein presented concerns itself with but one thread, perhaps a guyline. There seems to be a commonsense logic in the viewpoint that ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.444

FOLLOW-UP STUDY ON THORAZINE TREATED PATIENTS

Publication date: 01 November 1957

Pages449–452https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.449

RESULTS OF FOUR YEARS ACTIVE THERAPY FOR CHRONIC MENTAL PATIENTS AND THE VALUE OF AN INDIVIDUAL MAINTENANCE DOSE OF ECT

GUNTHER E. WOLFF

Publication date: 01 November 1957

Pages453–456

This paper reports: a. The results of 4 years active therapy on custodial wards with geriatric female patients. b. The benefit and limitation of tranquillizing drugs. c. The value of ECT as "surgery" in psychiatry. d. The importance of establishing a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.5.453