American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 115
- Number 3
- September 1958
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1958
Pages193–202Perhaps the outstanding single impression has been the increasingly important contribution which American medicine and psychiatry are making in many countries. This role will certainly tend to increase, if for no other reason than because of the large ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.3.193Publication date: 01 September 1958
Pages203–210The vigorous experimental work in neurophysiology and neurobiochemistry directs attention toward the structural mechanisms of the central nervous system and particularly to the ways and extent to which these built-in mechanisms order response. The work ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.3.203Publication date: 01 September 1958
Pages211–219Various aspects of the problem of the premenstrual tension syndrome have been discussed–from medical, psychiatric, and legal viewpoints. The syndrome has been defined with comments on frequency and symptoms with some elaboration on physiological changes ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.3.211Publication date: 01 September 1958
Pages220–2251. Two separate and independent causal chains can explain the clinical picture in organic brain syndromes. One chain, based on pathologic-physiological changes, causes the brain function to be disturbed, and another causal chain based on psychodynamic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.3.220Publication date: 01 September 1958
Pages228–231We have attempted to point out both the unique values and the limitations of the psychological appraisal; the functions of intelligence and personality tests, the areas in which they are appropriate and inappropriate; and finally the importance of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.3.228Publication date: 01 September 1958
Pages232–238There is a great current interest in the evaluation and use of psychopharmaceutical agents in the investigation and treatment of mental illness. Clinical investigation of these drugs is made difficult by a number of non-pharmacological factors which can ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.3.232Publication date: 01 September 1958
Pages239–244Psychodynamic observations made during the mescaline-induced state in 124 patients are reviewed. Mescaline produces a "state of being" in which the clinical spectrum can range from sleep to rage and from normalcy to thoroughly disorganized mental states. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.3.239Publication date: 01 September 1958
Pages246–247This survey of 148 (out of 623) patientindustry jobs and the patients' opinions about working leaves us with these impressions: 1. Work is one of the more favored activities among hospital patients; 2. Regular work raises the self-esteem of numerous ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.3.246Publication date: 01 September 1958
Pages248–250From the data presented here, it cannot be concluded that either Harmonyl or reserpine in the doses used is a more effective psychotherapeutic agent than is a placebo of similar physical appearance.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.3.248Publication date: 01 September 1958
Pages250–251Deprol is a useful drug for many chronic psychotic patients, particularly those with an element of depression. it is notable for its lack of severe side effects and its low toxicity.
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