American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 116
- Number 12
- June 1960
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1057–1064The pharmacological treatment of depressions offers this immense psychological advantage: the patient maintains his experiential continuity. The amnestic syndrome associated with ECT, to which many attributed therapeutic significance, proves to be quite ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1057Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1065–1069From a survey of the recent literature concerning the prevalence and treatment of mental illnesses it was concluded that great caution should be exercised in the generalization of clinical data not only to "normal" populations, but even within clinical ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1065Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1070–1075In this paper, the data obtained from a study of the records of 150 paranoid schizophrenic patients and a control group of 150 non-psychotic patients were presented and discussed in relation to Freud's hypothesis concerning the development of paranoid ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1070Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1076–1081This is the third of a series of papers on the psychiatry of the South Pacific. The present study includes all known hospitalized psychiatric cases in French Oceania, together with some historical notes. Cultural factors were of negligible significance at ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1076Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1082–1086The author surveyed 100 manic-depressive patients hospitalised in Talbieh Psychiatric Hospital, Jerusalem, during the years 1949-1958. These 100 patients are divided into 3 categories: 83% Jewish immigrants from Europe and the Americas, 5% from Asia and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1082Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1091–1096This paper attempts to account for the peculiarities in the development of 19th century knowledge of the psychotic child in terms of both scientific and extra-scientific factors. It is argued that extra-scientific factors determined the early interest in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1091Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1097–1103Scientific precision has far too often been consciously excluded from classical psychoanalysis, because Freud rejected it. In consequence, classical psychoanalysis has assumed many of the trappings of a religion, and lost many of the essential ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1097Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1107–1108Careful detailed observations were made on 14 private patients unresponsive to psychotherapy alone. It was concluded that when administered to patients in certain categories, isocarboxazid is an extremely safe and effective antidepressant.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1107Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1108–1109The Forrest tests and the test strips give essentially the same results. These methods for testing for phenothiazines excreted in the urine require some caution on the part of the observer. A positive test may be indicative of phenothiazine intake, but ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1108Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1110–1111Forty patients suffering from various depressive syndromes had been treated with imipramine hydrochloride for a period of 3 to 12 months. Remissions and marked improvement had been obtained in 80% of cases. The effect of the drug is apparent in 2 to 4 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1110Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1111–1112Half of the group of 24 showed temporary changes. These changes were maximal at the peak doses, either in the direction of decreased depression and withdrawal (8 cases) or increased restlessness and tension (4 cases). These changes were not lasting, and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.12.1111Publication date: 01 June 1960
Pages1118–11211. It is not yet clear what conclusions we may draw from the Indeterminacy Principle of physics in regard to causality or determinism. 2. We must explain why many thinkers hang on to the concepts of causality and determinism by factors of sufficient ...
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