American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 115
- Number 1
- July 1958
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1958
Pages14–17The individual and social behavior of 15 cats and 18 rhesus monkeys was recorded and analyzed during a control period of from 3 to 15 months, during which the animals were also trained to solve increasingly complicated problems. Adaptational conflicts ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.1.14Publication date: 01 July 1958
Pages18–24In our experience the most frequently encountered form of puerperal mental illness of sufficient gravity to require hospital care is the group of schizophrenic reactions. Many of these with a favorable outcome correspond to illnesses which were probably ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.1.18Publication date: 01 July 1958
Pages25–29This paper argues that the practice of validating diagnostic tests solely against psychiatric diagnosis is pointless. The reason is, that if this method of validation is used, none of the consequences of the diagnostic label necessarily follow from the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.1.25Publication date: 01 July 1958
Pages30–35These personal narrations of subjects recently recovered from LSD-25 experiences supplement the information obtained by clinical observation and psychological test data and give insight into the qualitative change occurring within the individual.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.1.30Publication date: 01 July 1958
Pages55–591. Four bilaterally adrenalectomized chronic schizophrenic patients have been maintained in good physiological states for 6 years in a state hospital setting. Another patient, continuously hospitalized since 1908, died of carcinomatous spread at age 66, 5 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.1.55Publication date: 01 July 1958
Pages66–71The occurrence of changes in association with the administration of mepazine (Pacatal) to 101 schizophrenic inpatients has been studied. These patients were functioning in the community prior to their admission. Changes considered as improvement within ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.1.66Publication date: 01 July 1958
Pages80–81A 25-year-old paraplegic with a severe depression and suicidal preoccupation completed a course of 15 electroshock treatments using anectine as a muscle relaxant. There were no complications during the course of the therapy. His depression improved and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.1.80Publication date: 01 July 1958
Pages81–82A case history is presented which suggests that acétazolamide (Diamox®), here used in the treatment of glaucoma, elevated the convulsive threshold of a patient being treated with electroshock therapy for a psychotic depression. The anticonvulsant property ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.1.81