American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 118
- Number 4
- October 1961
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages289–299In the disposition of the case of this murderer the Law and the State turned to psychiatry for assistance for a variey of purposes. 1. The Court ordered a psychiatric examination to determine Cooper's competency to stand trial; 2. State-appointed ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.289Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages311–322Twenty-two long-stay severely ill male schizophrenic patients were employed in a hospital workshop for 16 weeks. They all lived in one villa where the standard of social treatment was high. The two workshop supervisors were a male and a female staff ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.311Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages323–327A comparison was made of the treatment of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome with either promazine, paraldehyde or promazine-paraldehyde combined. 175 patients, 136 without delirium tremens and 39 with delirium tremens, were studied. Promazine was found to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.323Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages333–3401. A random sample of 40 sophomore medical students out of 80 was given structured psychiatric interviews. 2. Six (15%) of the group were psychiatrically ill ; of these 3 were manic-depressives, one an anxiety neurotic, one a chronic alcoholic, and one ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.333Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages341–346The social history questionnaire is not a substitute for, nor can it be favorably compared to history-taking in a personal interview. Yet we feel that it is a legitimate diagnostic instrument in certain situations. That is to say, the questionnaire is ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.341Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages347–3481. RO 4-0403 (Taractan) produced a beneficial response in 7 of a group of 30 extremely chronic psychotic patients. Those patients who responded showed a decrease in agitation, appeared more friendly and expressed the subjective sensation of "feeling ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.347Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages348–350Sixty psychotic patients have been treated with chlorprothixene for 8 to 32 weeks; most of the patients were chronic schizophrenics. Twenty (40%) schizophrenics improved or achieved a remission to be released for convalescent care; 13 (26%) improved ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.348Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages350–351A placebo was substituted for maintenance antiparkinson drug in 41 patients who had been given this medication for the control of phenothiazine-induced extra-pyramidal reactions. These reactions did not recur in 24 of the 41 patients (59%). Although ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.350Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages351–352A placebo was abruptly substituted for maintenance antiparkinson drug in 20 patients who had previously shown evidence of a thioperazine-induced extrapyramidal reaction. Within 20 days of this controlled study extrapyramidal reactions reappeared in 16 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.351Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages354–355Imipramine and nialamide were found to be comparable as measured by psychiatrist's clinical ratings of over-all improvement in patients with depressive symptoms. On measures of specffic behavioral factors on the MACC scale the two drug groups were ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.354Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages355–357Because of limited temporal factors, it is difficult at present to compare the incidence of "long-term" remissions (2 years or more) in patients treated by EST and those treated with antidepressant drugs. In "psychotic" depressions, treatment relapses, as ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.355Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages358–359Acetophenazine is compared with thiopropazate in its action on psychoneurotics. It was a more effective drug primarily because more patients could tolerate it due to a low incidence of parkinsonism. [SEE TABLE IN SOURCE PDF.] Drowsiness was its ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.4.358Publication date: 01 October 1961
Pages364–368In closing this attempt to review the Third World Congress of Psychiatry, it should be remarked that it has not been possible to achieve the impossible. No one could encompass this meeting in its entirety. Too much took place, too many papers ran ...
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