American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 120
- Number 12
- June 1964
Article
Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1143–1148Historically, medicine developed from man's need for relief from pain. In primitive times the medicine man became the first specialist and maintained his role with the tacit agreement of his people through the use of magic. The medicine man who permitted ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1143Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1155–11591. The Cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire was administered to a randomly chosen sample of 47 adolescent Indian boarding school students in an attempt to study the validity of this instrument in detecting psychiatric disturbances in this selected ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1155Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1160–1165In an attempt to determine the effectiveness of hypnotic techniques in the treatment of alcoholism, the literature was reviewed. The findings regarding the value of a hypnotically induced conditioned aversion reflex indicated that considerable success had ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1160Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1166–1169The present study is directed toward investigating whether the hyperponesis found in schizophrenics plays some type of etiologic role in the schizophrenic process or is merely a consequence of the disorder. Hyperponesis is a neurophysiologic state ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1166Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1170–1175Combinations of 25 mg. or 10 mg. amitriptyline and 4, 2, or 1 mg. perphenazine, 3 or 4 times daily, were administered to 40 hospitalized adult males with sociopathic personality characterized by sexual deviation. The treatment period ranged between one ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1170Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1176–1180Voluntary sterilization can and does contribute to mental health; by helping to keep the population increase in line with developing resources; by reducing the anxiety caused by fear of unwanted pregnancies; by preventing children from being born to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1176Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1181–11841. Rejection for employment often is based upon a false image that all persons suffering mental illness are overtly physically aggressive. 2. There is a failure to distinguish between acutely and chronically ill and to understand that there is likely to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1181Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1185–1188A patient was treated for symptoms of toxic psychosis, a form of organic brain syndrome, induced by tetanus antitoxin; her personal history showed an unstable emotional background, plus immediate emotional stress, prior to the onset of the overt psychotic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1185Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1189–1190In this study, conducted on 30 mental hospital patients manifesting extrapyramidal symptomatology, two antiparkinsonian drugs were interchanged with one another and with a placebo in a double-blind, crossover trial, and the results compared with a third ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1189Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1190–1192The effects of haloperidol in the management of elderly patients with chronic brain syndrome with cerebral arteriosclerosis or senile brain disease were investigated in an initial open phase (6 patients) and a subsequent randomized double-blind placebo-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1190Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1192–1194Serotonin-C14 was administered orally to 22 depressed patients and 22 normal subjects. The recovery of 5-HIAA-C14 calculated on the basis of administered serotonin-C14 and adjusted for variations in total carbon-14 recovery showed no significant ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1192Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1199–1200A fourth case of oral moniliasis is reported, with a discussion of factors common to the 4.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1199Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1201–1203Two cases of withdrawal from chronic addiction to ethchlorvynol are reported. The withdrawal syndrome is characterized by a latent period of 6 to 10 days and by a delirium which, in addition to the classical characteristics of delirium, has many features ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.12.1201Publication date: 01 June 1964
Pages1203–1204A case is presented in which a patient with prominent depression and a background of longstanding but controlled epilepsy underwent EST. Inadvertent interruption of the anticonvulsant medication in the course of hospitalization was followed by postictal ...
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