American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 114
- Number 8
- February 1958
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1958
Pages673–682A study has been made of 36 children during the age period 10 to 16. The children fell into 3 groups: 1. those displaying no symptoms of accident proneness or delinquency, 2. those with a major accident history, but displaying only minor tendencies toward ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.8.673Publication date: 01 February 1958
Pages683–689Data we have collected suggesting that schizophrenia is a deficiency disorder in the area of amine metabolism are presented. Investigations are currently under way toward finding substances which might alleviate this deficiency.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.8.683Publication date: 01 February 1958
Pages690–697Our review of the status of sex psychopath path laws, brought up to date, shows the addition of special laws in 3 states, Florida, Iowa and West Virginia, bringing the total number to 27 jurisdictions. The laws in a dozen or so states have been changed or ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.8.690Publication date: 01 February 1958
Pages698–702PM-GM Succinylcholine-modified electroshocktherapy without barbiturates has the following advantages: 1. Only 10 mg. of succinylcholine are needed to produce sufficient relaxation to prevent fractures in practically 100% of all patients. 2. It dispenses ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.8.698Publication date: 01 February 1958
Pages707–711Cases of alcoholic tuberculosis patients presented some instances of a history of physical complaints which gave rise to the hypothesis that respiratory defects and allergy are associated with alcoholism. The hypothesis was investigated in a random sample ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.8.707Publication date: 01 February 1958
Pages712–718School phobia has been shown to be a variant of separation anxiety. Direct observations of transactions between parents and children at the time of separation have been presented. Key dynamic factors have been identified and the mode of symptom formation ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.8.712Publication date: 01 February 1958
Pages719–726The common factor in all psychotherapeutic relations is admittedly the emotional relation between therapist and patient. In scrutinizing this factor, we encountered artfulness, the application of scientific technology which involves certain psychologic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.8.719Publication date: 01 February 1958
Pages741–743Psychologists have overlooked the possibility of first going to the culture and then to the individual in obtaining ideas for the construction of psychological instruments. A test of symbol arrangement has been developed in which this procedure has been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.8.741Publication date: 01 February 1958
Pages744–746The data obtained by systematic investigation have proven the clinical observation of perceptual distortion of temporal orientation in regressed schizophrenics. The fact that the mean stated age was approximately equal to the mean age on admission plus 7 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.114.8.744Publication date: 01 February 1958
Pages751–752BOL 148 administered to chronic schizophrenics, 1 mg. t.i.d. to 6 subjects for 2 weeks, or 5 mg. q.i.d. for 3 days to 3 subjects, had no evident effect on their psychoses.
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