American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 115
- Number 2
- August 1958
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages97–108On the basis of data in the literature and findings in the present study, it is clear that emotion may be recognized by patients as an intrinsic part of their attacks, and not as a reaction to the occurrence of the attack itself. The emotion is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.97Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages114–120When a program of non-restraint is put into action both personnel and patients require re-training. In a period of 6 weeks all physical restraints have been abolished on a disturbed service. The patients are much more relaxed and the personnel take a much ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.114Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages121–125It is not necessary to argue the point that transitory psychoses occur, and are seen frequently by the clinician. Occasionally a crime is committed during such a state— sometimes referred to as an acute psychotic episode. We must establish a set of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.121Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages129–1331. Psychiatric evaluation of a group of 29 volunteer research subjects demonstrated the presence of significant psychopathology in 15. In 11 of the 29 subjects psychiatric diagnoses were made. 2. There was an inverse relationship in this volunteer group ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.129Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages134–142In summary it can be stated that our focus on attitudes and traits as the elementary units of interaction in the family, and the method of preferential rating outlined here, make a quantitative treatment of such interactions possible. Our findings suggest ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.134Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages143–145This study of 543 consecutive admissions to the USAREUR Rehabilitation Center shows a certain concentration of negative antecedent developmental factors in the background of these men. I do not consider that the figures in this paper are by any means ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.143Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages146–149The subject of this study is the observation that some patients will give the year of their birth and the current year correctly but are unable to give their correct age. Pertinent literature is quoted. Five hundred female patients, chosen at random, were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.146Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages154–1561. Fatalities in the course of treatment with chlorpromazine and reserpine are much lower than with other somatic therapies. 2. Cardio-vascular and respiratory fatalities seen as the main complication with other somatic therapies are not as important ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.154Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages157–160In the series of 61 temporal lobe tumors there were mental symptoms in 50 cases. As initial symptoms there were mental manifestations in 37 cases before any neurological signs appeared. The symptoms were are follows: 1. fits (hallucinations, visual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.157Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages161–162In comparing blood groupings and the Rh.D. factor in Negro schizophrenics with controls and with former findings, interesting differences were noted: 1. Significant differences were found between schizophrenic subjects and control subjects in two of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.161Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages162–1631. A specific and sensitive method for the estimation of adrenochrome in plasma is described. 2. Adrenochrome could not be detected in the plasma of normal and schizophrenic subjects.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.2.162Publication date: 01 August 1958
Pages167–168Four schizophrenic patients receiving chlorpromazine in doses adequate to produce a Parkinsonian syndrome but with no history or physical findings of other neurological disease showed elevation of cerebrospinal fluid protein ranging from 51 to 108 mg.%. ...
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