American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 114
- Number 6
- December 1957
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1957
Pages481–487On the basis of this survey in 1954, only 43 psychiatrists were working full-time and 39 part-time in the 167 prisons and reformatories of the United States and possessions. In addition to this small group, there were 51 working in a consultant capacity. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.6.481Publication date: 01 December 1957
Pages505–5081. Traditional approaches to the problem of schizophrenia have made various theoretical and operational assumptions, six of which are reviewed and criticized. 2. An approach is proposed which offers certain advantages such as empirical verifiability. 3. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.6.505Publication date: 01 December 1957
Pages509–517In the year 1955-56 the number of patients reached by somatic therapy in the mental hospitals of New York State was increased by some 250% due to the introduction of the tranquilizing drugs, chlorpromazine and reserpine. At the end of that year the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.6.509Publication date: 01 December 1957
Pages518–523Parkinsonism presents a notoriously discouraging therapeutic problem, since no treatment heretofore employed has significantly altered the course of the disease. Recent work with antihistamines suggests that certain of these compounds may have value in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.6.518Publication date: 01 December 1957
Pages524–526A study was carried out using meprobamate (Miltown) with 109 psychiatric patients over a period of one year. It was found to be a rapidly acting, safe and effective drug, of distinct benefit in those emotional disturbances which are characterized by the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.6.524Publication date: 01 December 1957
Pages527–531The history of stigmatization has fascinated observers from the time of St. Francis of Assisi in the 13th Century to the present. That history is reviewed here. Carefully detailed studies of a modern stigmatized person, Therese Neumann, reveals a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.6.527Publication date: 01 December 1957
Pages532–535Eighty patients on an acute intensive treatment ward of a Veterans Administration neuropsychiatric hospital were divided into 4 groups matched for age, diagnosis and number of months of previous psychiatric hospitalization. Each of 2 trained activity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.6.532Publication date: 01 December 1957
Pages536–539A Social Maladjustment Study Unit was organized at Malcolm Bliss Psychiatric Hospital in July, 1956, to serve as an interdisciplinary research, teaching and consultation center focusing on the study, understanding and eventual social readjustment of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.6.536Publication date: 01 December 1957
Pages540–5451. The view was expressed that behavioral effects of somatic treatment must occur within the context of lawful stimulus-response relationships. 2. The hypothesis was suggested that certain changes in the internal environment are included in the stimulus ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.6.540Publication date: 01 December 1957
Pages546–553A method for studying the process of self-evaluation and organization of time experience is described. It utilizes an experimental situation in which the subject is not aware of the experimenter's interest in time perception, in which external cues are ...
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