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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 115
  • Number 12
  • June 1959

Article

Publication date: 01 June 1959

Pages1057–1061

Careful examination including review of the psychological test data failed in our opinion to reveal evidence of psychosis. The diagnosis of sociopathic personality was based upon the history of poor social adjustment, intolerance of frustration and ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.12.1057

Publication date: 01 June 1959

Pages1068–1070

The usefulness of psychiatry and acceptance of its enormous potential value in the law enforcement and correctional fields are growing steadily. The development of programs of individual and group therapy in correctional institutions seems to me the most ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.12.1068

Publication date: 01 June 1959

Pages1081–1090

For the past 7 years the Educational Research Committee of the psychiatric training center in Topeka, Kansas, has attempted to evaluate objectively (a) the impact of psychiatric training on residents and (b) the post-residency development of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.12.1081

Publication date: 01 June 1959

Pages1091–1096

We have outlined, for the sake of simplicity, 3 groups of psychosomatic theorists. One assumes that the psychological make-up of the individual and the character of the psychological trauma determine the nature of organic illness. Another group believes ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.12.1091

Publication date: 01 June 1959

Pages1097–1100

Comparison of groups of controls, neurotics, and psychotics were made by means of a structured interview. Developmental symptoms (enuresis and somnambulism) were not noted to be harbingers of psychiatric disease. Menopausal symptoms, dysmenorrhea, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.12.1097

Publication date: 01 June 1959

Pages1101–1107

We have suggested that two sets of factors are important in the development of the manic-depressive personality: 1. The state of ego development when major anxiety-provoking experiences occur; 2. The dynamics of interpersonal relationships between the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.12.1101

Publication date: 01 June 1959

Pages1114–1115

A specific urinary color test for triflupromazine (Vesprin) is reported in which 1 ml. of urine is mixed with 1 ml. 10% trichloracetic acid. To this mixture 1 ml. of 1/1000 molar solution of uranyl nitrate in concentrated hydrochloric acid is added. The ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.12.1114

Publication date: 01 June 1959

Pages1116–1117

The data confirm previous reports(1-2) concerning the high clinical potency of this phenothiazine.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.12.1116

Publication date: 01 June 1959

Pages1123-a–1124

This is the description of a case of acute meprobamate intoxication due to the ingestion of 47.6 grams of the drug with fatal outcome. We wish to emphasize that meprobamate should be used with the same careful consideration that any therapeutic agent ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.12.1123-a

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