American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 119
- Number 5
- November 1962
Article
Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages393–396Traditional ego defense mechanisms alleviate distress. They also mitigate anxiety and depression which would otherwise overwhelm the prisoner in a death cell. Some psychiatrists allege that the death fear (whether on the battlefield or in the death house) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.393Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages397–403The type of data analyzed in the present study may provide evidence concerning the validity of clinical diagnosis in psychiatry, a differential contribution of hereditary and environmental factors in the etiology of specific diagnoses, and association ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.397Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages404–409Pyschiatric research, in the best sense of the term, means the explanation of behavior. The mere gathering of facts, which are then treated statistically, is not necessarily the highest type of research. Freud's work and the work of Hughlings Jackson on ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.404Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages410–414It would seem that we as psychiatrists have to clarify our thinking on the moral issues involved in sociopathy and come out strongly in favor of treatment for those cases, and I think they represent the overwhelming majority, where such an approach can ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.410Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages421–426A study of the rates of admission, therapy and outcome of depressed patients at Central Islip State Hospital for the two years 1955 and 1960 is reported. A drop in the admission rate for the more severely psychotic depressions has been balanced by a rise ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.421Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages427–431The antidepressant drug imipramine was evaluated by means of a double blind study. Therapeutic results were assessed on the basis of a rating scale, psychological tests, and clinical course. Differences favoring the drug were found in some of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.427Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages432–4381. One hundred and eighty voluntary inpatients (102 schizophrenic subjects, 67 subjects with affective disorders, and 11 "other" diagnoses) were studied during treatment with imipramine. 2. Seven imipramine induced behavioral reaction patterns and their ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.432Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages439–445The evaluation of the changing pattern of consciousness can be used as a measure of the growing integrative capacity of the central nervous system in infancy. In the first months of life, at least two skills develop which are necessary for the maintenance ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.439Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages446–450An investigation of failures to keep appointments and reluctance to refer individuals in obvious need of psychiatric assistance was conducted in an Army division psychiatric section. Making use of formal and informal channels of communication within the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.446Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages461–462Fifty-two psychiatric patients and 4 with severe insomnia only received propiomazine orally as a hypnotic. 1. Forty milligrams proved the most satisfactory dose; smaller amounts were relatively ineffective; larger doses did not increase the hypnotic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.461Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages462–463Seventy patients on acute intensive treatment with chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine, and fluphenazine were placed at random in two groups. Group A treated with benztropine methanesulfonate had 40 extrapyramidal symptoms of which 35 improved. Blurred vision ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.462Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages464–465Intramuscular histamine can be used to confirm a diagnosis of schizophrenia in the young schizophrenic male. It will increase his urinary excretion of vanil-mandelic acid significantly. Histamine induced vanil-mandelic-aciduria will neither occur in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.464Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages465–466From the data obtained from the present sample, the following conclusions may be drawn: 1) considering the rigorously controlled setting in which the drug was evaluated, Ensidon seems to be an adequately potent antidepressant substance reaching the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.465Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages469–472Clinical experience has left the impression that housing situation of the nuclear family is related to the behavioral health of the children. Cases of varying degrees of typicalness are briefly presented to illustrate this situation. It remains to be seen ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.469Publication date: 01 November 1962
Page472AHR 437 in series of 12 children with hyperactivity and behavior disorders demonstrated no therapeutic effect in 66% of the cases.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.472Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages472-a–474A series of 75 consecutive psychiatric admissions were assessed for clinical diagnosis and laboratory determinations of CCF and SGOT. All CCF were negative. No instance of positive SGOT determination was found in the absence of specific and additional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.472-aPublication date: 01 November 1962
Page475In this case Deprol in dosage as high as 50 tablets daily (20 gm. meprobamate and 50 mg. benactyzine) proved efficacious in alcoholic withdrawal. The authors feel that Deprol in the hands of physicians experienced in its use may prove efficacious in areas ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.475Publication date: 01 November 1962
Page476A case is described of urinary retention lasting 27 days after 15 days' treatment with amitriptyline hydrochloride (Tryptizol). The interesting features are 1) the long duration of the condition after the drug was stopped and 2) the failure of a ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.5.476Publication date: 01 November 1962
Pages483–484A questionnaire sent to the departments of psychiatry of the colleges of medicine in the United States revealed that 82% of responding colleges felt that continuing psychiatric education is the responsibility of the medical schools. Since 62% of the ...
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