American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 118
- Number 6
- December 1961
Article
Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages481–498It is probably true that by far the most research in the field of psychiatry today still starts with an end-product, a sick patient, and seeks to unravel the sequence of events, psychological and physiological, that appear to have led to his becoming ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.481Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages499–503A sample of patients discharged from a state hospital was interviewed at regular intervals; this preliminary report includes information obtained at the 6 months' follow-up. In addition to an evaluation of observed, objective well-being ("adjustment"), ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.499Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages509–511Porphyria in a patient can, under certain circumstances, especially when under barbiturates, produce symptoms of an emotional disorder, which do not respond to the psychiatrically oriented therapies, but must be treated medically. There is a possibility ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.509Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages512–517We have observed the early development of children of 2 schizophrenic parents. Three of the 4 children raised by their original schizophrenic parents developed clear-cut signs of depression and irritability in infancy. None of the 4 infants raised by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.512Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages518–523The concept underlying this approach is the recognition that man is a role player, that every individual is characterized by a certain range of roles which dominate his behavior, and that every culture is characterized by a certain set of roles which it ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.518Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages534–538An adjective checklist, designed by selecting items which a group of "experts" agreed would differentiate younger from older persons and which was found to be adequately reliable and valid, was administered to 83 white male, VA surgical patients ranging ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.534Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages539–542Inability to restrain bodily discharges is a problem of both individual and social concern. In the mental institution the incontinent patient presents a severe nursing problem. After preliminary encouraging results obtained in a previous clinical trial, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.539Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages543–544A clinical evaluation of Mellaril in 110 patients confirms its efficacy(2) in the treatment of geriatric psychiatric patients. Enhancing its usefulness was the high degree of toleration noted in this series, an important consideration in the care of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.543Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages544–546Under the conditions of this experiment, the data point to an advantage of 5-minute therapy sessions over 25-minute ones. With other types of patients and with other types of therapy the results would probably have been different. For the reported ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.544Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages546–547Elavil is an effective antidepressant agent. Side effects, with the dosage employed, are slight. It appears that efficacious antidepressant drugs will produce successful results in some 70 to 75% of patients with affective disorders as a whole.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.546Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages551–552In 3 patients suffering from schizophrenia and one patient with arteriosclerotic dementia persisting dyskinetic movements caused by psychopharmaca disappeared almost or completely after treatment with tetrabenacine (Nitoman®). The schizophrenics received ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.551Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages554–5551. Kevadon, in short term hypnotic effect, is equal to, if not more adequate than, phenobarbital; 2. It seems—and this has to be confirmed with more detailed studies—that Kevadon has less after or "hang over" effect than phenobarbital; 3. It seems to be ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.118.6.554Publication date: 01 December 1961
Pages555–557The frequency of the use of ECT in psychotic depressions in a small psychiatric unit in a general hospital is compared for 1958 and 1960. Decreased use is related to an improved therapeutic milieu and to judicious use of antidepressant medications.
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