American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 119
- Number 10
- April 1963
Article
Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages913–921This study reports the immediate psychological effects of a maritime explosion on 36 survivors, and the long term effects on 34 who were seen 3½ to 4½ years later. All were experienced seamen. The circumstamces of the accident were virtually identical for ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.913Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages927–933During the past year and a half 12 infants and young children have been cared for by their mothers on the adult wards of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, in conjunction with the hospital treatment of these mothers for severe emotional disorders. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.927Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages934–939A review is presented of the treatment of 12 autistic and symbiotic psychotic children over a period of years at the Univesity of Michigan Children's Psychiatric Hospital. The paper focuses upon the effects of two contrasting treatment programs and their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.934Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages940–944The course described in this paper was an important aspect of the first year's work in an experimental program in training psychotherapists. It was unique in that it integrated many different parts into a meaningful ful, lively, learning experience of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.940Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages945–953The relative success in dividing a group of patients into subgroups with varying outcomes depends in part, of course, on the nature of the original group and the criteria by which the diagnosis of schizophrenia was first made. In the group we have studied ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.945Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages960–965This study, based upon a 6- to 8-year follow-up of 25 patients, who were diagnosed as suffering from hysteria originally, and again at follow-up, resulted in the following conclusions: 1. Hysteria, as here defined, is a distinct, recognizable syndrome ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.960Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages966–9721. Fifteen heavy smokers were observed in a state of sudden abstinence, and contrasted with a comparable group of 11 subjects allowed to smoke ad libitum. Cardiac slowing, presumably vagotonic, and a lowering of diastolic blood pressure was found in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.966Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages980–983No known attempts to document statistically the incidence of post-abortion psychiatric illness have been found in American medical literature, yet many writers describe and discuss this as fairly common after-effects of both therapeutic and criminal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.980Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages984–985In our clinical trial with 20 male chronic patients on a mental hospital ward, clopenthixol appeared to have observable antipsychotic properties with relatively little toxicity. The observation that this drug was therapeutically effective in certain ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.984Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages985–986A limited research project was undertaken in which LSD was combined with psychotherapy. The results are in essential agreement with those of other investigators, who have used LSD as adjunct to therapy with alcoholic patients. Evidence of the existence of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.985Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages991–992This protective method will be of value in patients taking chlorpromazine. The aerosol spray is simple to apply and need not be applied more than once every five days once the protective filter is induced. It has protected patients who are on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.991Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages992–993Some points of interest arose out of this study: 1. Some cases of depression(8) were misdiagnosed as suffering from dementia; the impaired powers of concentration and attention found in depression presumably giving a false impression of impaired memory ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.992Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages994–995Auricular tachycardia occurred during combined thyroid-imipramine therapy. Animal studies suggest that the toxicity of both imipramine and MAO inhibitors may be increased in states of hyperthyroidlism. The mechanisms involved are under study.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.10.994Publication date: 01 April 1963
Pages996–997The study of behavior and the electroencephalogram has been enhanced by sound motion picture photography and EEG telemetry. The technique led to an unexpected degree of reduction of muscle and electrical artifacts resulting from the elimination of strong ...
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