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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 119
  • Number 1
  • July 1962

Article

Publication date: 01 July 1962

Pages1–15

1. Work actively for the adoption of the major recommendations of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health in your state and at the federal level. It offers to psychiatry the greatest opportunity that will be given in this decade to advance ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.1.1

Publication date: 01 July 1962

Pages20–35

1. Fall of population in the New York State mental hospitals has continued through its sixth year. The rate of overall decrease has been about 1½% per year. Several elements in the total population can be identified as most affected by the change and with ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.1.20

Publication date: 01 July 1962

Pages48–56

All of the above raises in our minds a question which has been stated in a number of different ways in the past concerning the balance between the needs and the wants of individuals on the one hand— in this group apparently very much in balance—and the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.1.48

Publication date: 01 July 1962

Pages57–60

This study began as an attempt to identify common characteristics of various types of amnesia. The study demonstrated some significant trends for certain characteristics to be present or claimed in various types of amnesia. However, the study did ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.1.57

Publication date: 01 July 1962

Pages61–67

All model psychoses may be conceptualized as resulting from disruption in the central processing or from interference with the normal sensory influx from body or distance receptors. The experimental findings of the effects of sleep deprivation, sensory ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.1.61

Publication date: 01 July 1962

Pages70–71

Butyrylperazine, a new phenothiazine of the piperazine series, was compared with trifluoperazine in a 3-month study involving 44 chronic schizophrenic patients. The study employed a double-blind, cross over design using a fixed dosage regimen of both ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.1.70

Publication date: 01 July 1962

Page72

In light of these findings we can only conclude that fluphenazine is not of any material value over any of the other phenothiazines in the treatment of the chronic refractory schizophrenics.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.1.72

Publication date: 01 July 1962

Pages75–76

Carphenazine and piperacetazine, two new phenothiazines, were given to 80 chronic schizophrenic patients for 4 to 9 months. These patients had previously served as control subjects in a controlled drug evaluation and had not improved. A global rating of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.1.75

Publication date: 01 July 1962

Page78

This method can be used with ECT and succinylcholine chloride for maximum muscular relaxation when pentothal or "petit mal technic" to avert anxiety is contraindicated because of liver damage or fragile bony structure as in the present case of Gaucher's ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.1.78

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