American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 115
- Number 6
- December 1958
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages498–504In recent years the exploration of the brain has shown some of those systems which are involved in the production and maintenance of certain motivational states. In rats, Olds and Milner demonstrated rewarding effects of stimulating certain systems; in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.6.498Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages514–517To determine the relationship between letter writing and length of hospitalization, the names were secured of all patients in a mental hospital who received or sent letters during a given one-week period. There was a highly significant relationship ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.6.514Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages518–521Fifty-five of 86 patients were interviewed concerning their attitudes to the "open door" as a function of the therapeutic community in the research division ward. The patients generally agreed that the "open door" had played a beneficial role in their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.6.518Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages522–528The doctor-patient relationship which characterizes a given situation depends on two principal categories of variables: the medical situation and the social scene. The cultural matrix impinges on the individual characteristics of both physician and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.6.522Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages529–534It is conceived that the pastor has important duties of counseling to perform for his parishioners in addition to his service as spiritual leader and advisor. Undoubtedly, this part of his work could be performed better if he could have some of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.6.529Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages535–538Phrenology, which had its beginnings in the 1790s under Gall, reached the peak of its movement in medicine during the first half of the 19th century. When Spurzheim brought his modified form of this thought to the United States in 1832, he produced a wave ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.6.535Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages539–542On the basis of 8 months' experience with this small group of 5 physicians, it does appear feasible to instruct general practitioners in the psychiatric management of the chronic alcohol patient. It seems that such a program of instruction presents ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.6.539Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages544–545One hundred chronic, withdrawn, akinetic, psychotic patients were given iproniazid in hopes of making them more accessible to group interaction and more manageable. We did not find the drug helpful in those patients whose affect was characterized by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.6.544Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages548–549Seventy-six per cent of 50 patients who had been resistant to all other therapies responded favorably to a program based on acepromazine's psychosedative action. We feel that these results were obtained because the regimen emphasized individualization of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.6.548Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages551–552This report illustrates one case where a potent, new, non-barbiturate sedative (glutethimide) proved to be addicting to a predisposed alcoholic with an underlying schizophrenic illness. It emphasizes, however, the danger of addiction that this drug ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.115.6.551Publication date: 01 December 1958
Pages552–553A case of treatment of a psychotic adult cretin with liothyronine is reported. The drug produced marked physical improvement with no notable amelioration of the mental state.
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