American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 118
- Number 5
- November 1961
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages398–404School refusal would seem to be a symptom complex appearing in more than one psychological configuration. In its acute form, it is felt to arise out of difficulties that the child has experienced in achieving a sense of autonomy. This has been due ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.398Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages405–409Questionnaires were sent to hospital administrators who referred them to their clinical directors, chiefs of service or directors of professional services. The data thus obtained represent the judgements of psychiatrists with varying degrees of training, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.405Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages410–4181. A form of hospital treatment for alcoholism, providing short hospitalization followed by prolonged outpatient treatment is described. 2. A therapeutic hospital milieu results from techniques facilitating patient interaction; treatment intervention by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.410Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages423–425This report is not intended to suggest that psychotic religious, or religious in general, are more depressed than other occupational or social classes, but to outline some possible reasons, specific to their life, why those who are depressed become so. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.423Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages426–427Eight short case histories were presented of patients admitted to Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane charged or indicted with murder, first degree, occurring as a reaction to paranoid delusions of an involutional psychosis. In all of these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.426Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages428–437A group of 7 chronically ill, male, schizophrenic patients living on the same ward over a period of at least a year were studied. Spectrophotometric measurements of approximately 3,600 urine specimens were performed in order to determine the excretion ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.428Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages438–446A brief review of the concepts and methods involved in the objective description and measurement of "personality" by means of interaction chronograph methods, together with a comment on previous studies, have been presented. The present study was ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.438Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages450–452For one family data are presented to suggest that the specific stress of psychosis in a relative can serve as one of the major precipitating factors in what otherwise might appear to be a largely genetically determined psychosis.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.450Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages452–454A clinical evaluation of Mellaril in 74 chronic psychotics has shown it to be an effective and well tolerated tranquilizer. Its ability to control or modify major emotional disorders with little or no clouding of consciousness or extrapyramidal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.452Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages454–455Six months of clinical experience with a new antidepressant medication, Parnate (tranylcypromine), indicates that this compound is a very effective monoamine oxydase inhibitor. It appears to act fairly rapidly in a wide variety of depressive states and in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.454Publication date: 01 November 1961
Pages457–458Inducing 5-hydroxy-indole-acetic aciduria by injecting reserpine and by oral tryptophane did not differentiate between schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic psychiatric patients within our experimental conditions.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.5.457Publication date: 01 November 1961
Page459Of 18 children receiving L-Glutavite in the blind study only 2 showed appreciable improvement in their behavior. Of the 17 children receiving the placebo 3 displayed the same degree of improvement. L-Glutavite in the dose administered during this 6-week ...
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