American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 118
- Number 3
- September 1961
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages193–197Hughlings Jackson, Sigmund Freud and Sir Charles Sherrington held similar views concerning the relation of brain and mind. Jackson and Freud believed that physical and mental processes comprise two distinct series of events, which are closely related but ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.193Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages198–204An attempt has been made in this paper to account in theoretical terms for the generalised slowness which has been shown in previous work to characterise psychotic patients. Making use of the theoretical framework of modern learning theory, two hypotheses ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.198Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages212–217New physiological discoveries are providing the behavioral sciences with a unique opportunity for the reconstruction of traditional theories of motivation. We are no longer constrained, for example, to view overeating solely as a result of an increased ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.212Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages227–231In our experience in treating over 600 patients, 258 of whom are reported on in this communication, chlorprothixene has proved to be an effective broad-range psychotropic agent with a high degree of safety.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.227Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages232–234Micropsia may accompany neurological defect or dysfunction as in tumors of the temporal lobe and petit mal. It may be encountered as a psychopathological phenomenon without structural defect. It is described relatively infrequently in medical literature. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.232Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages235–240An account is given of the available results of behavior therapy in the treatment of sexual disorders. To date attempts have been made to treat impotence, frigidity, voyeurism, exhibitionism, transvestism, fetishism and homosexuality. The results suggest ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.235Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages241–244The selection of aged patients for psychotherapy appears to follow the same sociopsychological trends as in younger persons. This manner of selection may tend to weed out the most helpless, anxious and most psychotherapeutically malleable candidates for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.241Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages245–246The phenothiazines exert a therapeutic activity having great value in penal institutions. Experience has demonstrated that the toleration to thioridazine and its clinical effect make it a drug that is very helpful in the treatment of anxiety in prison ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.245Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages246–247The successful management of an acutely disturbed ward rests in the control of the chronically disturbed and combative patients. A regimen utilizing an average 700 mg. Throzine (or equivalent ) daily resulted in marked improvement in the behaviour and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.246Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages248–249In the treatment of the long term psychotic patient who will require large amounts of phenothiazines, especially those with a piperazine ring in the side chain, consideration should be given to prevention of the EPS. UK-738 has satisfactorily suppressed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.248Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages249–250An indwelling polyethylene tube in a large superficial vein offers a simple, safe, economical technique for obtaining serial blood samples without disturbing a sleeping subject. This permits study of hematological correlates of depth of sleep, diurnal and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.249Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages251–2521. A 10% recorded incidence for "Rum Fits" in an alcoholic population was determined by review of the charts of 200 consecutive patients admitted to a state mental hospital. This is in essential agreement with other published data, though it is felt that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.251Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages253–254The clinical effects of Haloperidol in dosages small enough to avoid troublesome side effects were observed in a small, carefully controlled study. The overall beneficial effects noted were inconclusive statistically as compared with placebo, although ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.253Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages254–255A clinical trial was conducted on 30 hospitalized female patients with cyclopentimine. Decreasing aggressiveness and euphoria were observed as beneficial effects in 8 patients. However, because of the uncontrollable side effects of severe nausea, vomiting,...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.3.254Publication date: 01 September 1961
Pages260–263The literature on familial periodic paralysis has revealed no cases of intercurrent psychosis. The patients have been described by several authors as being relatively free of emotional difficulties, and this freedom has been attributed to the absence of ...
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