American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 119
- Number 8
- February 1963
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages705–712We have presented a small sampling of contemporary critical writings about psychiatry. Serious questions have been raised regarding almost every aspect of our theory, our practice, and our place in society. Understandably, any clinician actively involved ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.705Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages713–720We have described the breakdown of a vital social system necessitating collaboration between two highly respected professions. The confused statute regarding incompetency to stand trial and its distorted application by both physician and lawyer tends to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.713Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages721–728Old age is a period of rapid, profound and multiple changes of varying intensities, physiological and social, which influence subjective experience, behavior and adaptation. Characteristics possessed prior to old age modify the extent and the nature of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.721Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages729–731This has been a pioneering venture, in which a community undertakes to share responsibility for the mentally ill with its State mental hospital. In the project, we have developed routines and methods which take advantage of existing community resources to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.729Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages743–747Two hundred and five male schizophrenic inpatients receiving intensive psychotherapy were studied to determine the relative estimate of homosexual orientation between 128 paranoid schizophrenics and a control group of 77 non-paranoid schizophrenics. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.743Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages748–753Psychiatric journals for fiscal years 1957 and 1960 were surveyed for articles reporting research on the therapeutic value of tranquilizing and energizing drugs. Data concerning the adequacy of reporting and of methodology were collected. There were 36% ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.748Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages754–758A statistical evaluation of 150 homicidal patients was presented. The ratio of male: female patients was 4:1. One hundred and fifty-seven persons were killed by 150 patients. Of the victims 73 (47%) involved family members. Thirty-two male patients (27%) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.754Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages763–7671. The concept of the Closed Group in the development of an open psychiatric hospital in Oxford is elaborated and its composition, management and regime are described. 2. In this hospital (a traditional mental hospital responsible for all types of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.763Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages774–775Psychotherapy was facilitated in two significant regards: 1) through the alleviation of anxiety, and relaxation without oversedation, chlordiazepoxide markedly augmented patient-therapist communication, thereby promoting better insight, making ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.774Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages775–776Consecutive evaluations of trifluoperazine and thioridazine were performed in 109 hospitalized schizophrenics. The same degree of tranquilizing effect was obtained with both drugs in 104 patients. Extrapyramidal symptoms were induced by thioridazine in 1 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.775Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages780–781One hundred schizophrenics and 25 others with paranoid psychosis received trifluoperazine and amitriptyline in combination. The results were unusually gratifying and side effects reduced.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.780Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages786–787A case is reported of a 56-year-old psychotically depressed woman with severe vascular disease who suffered a transient hemiparesis after her third ECT. Her neurological picture cleared almost completely, and she later received 11 further ECTs with a good ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.119.8.786Publication date: 01 February 1963
Pages788–791A psychiatrically depressed patient with complete heart block received a course of electroshock therapy. On one occasion ventricular tachycardia and ventricular arrest occurred, but the patient recovered without cardiac therapy. The potential aggravation ...
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