American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 116
- Number 2
- August 1959
Article
Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages97–103Research on the effect of drugs, particularly those affecting mood, mentation, and activity, is complicated by a number of obscuring factors. Many of these complications seem inevitable in terms of the nature of the drugs or the available subjects. Until ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.97Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages104–1091. The complete psychiatric census of the Fiji Islands which has been taken periodically since 1911 meets some of the requirements for determination of the "true prevalence" of psychiatric disorders. It appears that such disorders were more frequent in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.104Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages114–119In this review of rhythms, cycles and periods, reports are cited to support the view that both the physiological and psychological processes of man are influenced by recurrent biologic phenomena. Such periodic activities are basic ingredients in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.114Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages120–123I believe these simple rules within our means if within our desires. We should hardly ask less of ourselves if we ask others to consider us scientists when we teach and practice psychotherapy. We can and should learn much about psychotherapy through other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.120Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages124–126In the seizure itself, in the psychosis which may develop, and in other verbal and non-verbal aspects of behavior the patient conceptualizes himself and his problems at different levels of interaction in the environment. The level of interaction is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.124Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages127–132These findings provide concrete statistical affirmation for the view that despite protestations that their point of reference is always the individual patient, clinicians in fact may be so committed to a particular psychiatric school of thought, that the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.127Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages133–136Cataplexy may be evoked by impulses of aggression associated with guilt. The aggression may be naked and undisguised, as in hunting and fishing, and in boxing, where the object is to hurt and paralyse one's opponent. Or it may be symbolic, as in those ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.133Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages137–147The current study involved the analysis of 700 cases of D. T., including a review of the causes of death of the 17 patients who succumbed to this illness. Forty-five patients were subjected to a study of their water and electrolyte disturbance. Delirium ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.137Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages152–157Though they undoubtedly constitute one of the largest categories of mental disorders, the psychoneuroses represent a small proportion of hospitalized cases. It is common knowledge that many psychoneurotics, even without treatment, carry out their social ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.152Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages158–1621. Considering the stigma associated with mental hospitals, the psychiatric department of a general hospital is a much better place, not only for detection and treatment of early cases of psychosis, but also for various kinds of psychoneurosis. 2. As a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.158Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages165–166Deanol was used in 100 institutionalized female schizophrenics. It was moderately effective in 25%, producing increased interest in milieu, work and recreation, and decreasing somatic delusional trends, depression, retardation, and mutism. Side actions ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.2.165Publication date: 01 August 1959
Pages169–171Use-rates for 9 tranquilizing and 3 stimulant drugs or drug-combinations were recorded in a state hospital population over a 4 year period, ending December 31, 1958. Data were plotted graphically, and userates were observed in descending order for ...
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