American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 116
- Number 5
- November 1959
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages392–399Five phenothiazine derivatives have been studied using similar groups of patients and similar methods of evaluating and recording behavioral change. All of the patients included in these reports had been hospitalized longer than one year and had been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.392Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages400–4041. The prevalence of suicidal attempts in adolescents has been obscured by the paucity of completed suicides in that period. 2. In adults the relationship between affective disorders and suicide has been established. In adolescents it would seem that this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.400Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages405–408Psychic determinism is a basic tenet of psychoanalysis. It is commonly defined as an application of the causality principle to psychic occurrences. Causality, however, is no longer accepted as a basic postulate in the advanced physical sciences. This ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.405Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages409–415As a result of these experiences, we are convinced that a valuable diagnostic tool has been overlooked in child psychiatry. We decided to set up an acute inpatient service for pre-adolescent, emotionally disturbed children, based on the notion that a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.409Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages416–422This paper has represented an attempt to summarize the facts pertinent to the development and present status of the District Branch movement that is now progressing within the American Psychiatric Association. Some reflections concerning and suggestions ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.416Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages423–428There are many ways of viewing the etiology of mental disease. It can be understood as being due to heredity, due to fixation at infantile levels of instinctual development and faulty early object relationships, due to biological dysfunctions and due to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.423Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages429–434A re-orientation to theory and therapy of some depressive states is slowly coming into sharper focus. The sequence of events developing from the response of a depressed patient to nicotinic acid and its relation to iproniazid is presented. Psychic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.429Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages435–437In this paper, we have discussed what we consider to be a basic problem in the field of inpatient care: the relative lack of exploration and analysis of the considerations basic to developing a model for an inpatient facility. We have suggested 3 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.435Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages443–446This paper does not criticize the great work that is being done to promote the meaningful growth and education of the deaf child and helping him to achieve as much oral facility as possible. It is presented in the hope that hand in hand with this, there ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.443Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages447–452Five cases of filicide committed by mothers are reported. Filicide remains an abnormality, primarily restricted to the female. Faulty relationships to either parent or extremely poor marital adjustment, or both, were present in each case. Four cases were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.447Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages453–4541. RO-5-0831/1 is a sufficiently potent anti-depressant to require further study; 2. It should be tried in instances where other anti-depressants have failed; 3. It brings into the therapeutic arsenal of depression the possibility of choice according to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.453Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages457–458Of the patients treated with fluphenazine, 141 of the 166 who were evaluated (85%) improved, 23 responded poorly, and 24 were for appropriate reasons not evaluated. The average dose was 5 mg. on admission, 5 mg. the next morning and 2.5 mg. thereafter as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.116.5.457Publication date: 01 November 1959
Pages459–460This study indicated a direct, statistically significant association between tranquilization of hospitalized psychiatric patients aged 55 and older and the development of physical illness or injury. This was not demonstrated for patients of 54 and ...
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