American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 115
- Number 12
- June 1959
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1959
Pages1057–1061Careful 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.115.12.1057Publication date: 01 June 1959
Pages1068–1070The 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.115.12.1068Publication date: 01 June 1959
Pages1081–1090For 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.115.12.1081Publication date: 01 June 1959
Pages1091–1096We 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.115.12.1091Publication date: 01 June 1959
Pages1097–1100Comparison 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.115.12.1097Publication date: 01 June 1959
Pages1101–1107We 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.115.12.1101Publication date: 01 June 1959
Pages1114–1115A 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.115.12.1114Publication date: 01 June 1959
Pages1116–1117The data confirm previous reports(1-2) concerning the high clinical potency of this phenothiazine.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.12.1116Publication date: 01 June 1959
Pages1123-a–1124This 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