American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 120
- Number 3
- September 1963
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1963
Pages209–217There are times when it is good for us to look with a questioning eye at our brave new world. The historical development of psychiatry is characterized by a series of expectations of high promise doomed to disappointment. Neuropathology and genetics are ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.3.209Publication date: 01 September 1963
Pages222–227The issue of the longitudinal view needed to be raised in order to support a functional concept of psychiatric disorders and their treatment. A model clinic has been shown to be the proving ground for finding new solutions to old but easily forgotten ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.3.222Publication date: 01 September 1963
Pages228–233The decisive incident that forced a decision that a particular individual could no longer remain in the community and must be admitted to a mental hospital was studied from the point of view of the person making this decision. Descriptive data on 100 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.3.228Publication date: 01 September 1963
Pages234–243Research at the NIMH on the families of schizophrenics is broadened in this study to include the parents of child psychiatric patients. Previous studies in this program (5) have demonstrated that the families of young adult schizophrenics can be blindly ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.3.234Publication date: 01 September 1963
Pages244–249From the data presented, we have drawn the following conclusions: 1. The first hospitalization is very useful for most mental patients over 65 years. The median stay was 42 days. 2. One year post admission, 19% were dead, 48% were home, and 39% were able ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.3.244Publication date: 01 September 1963
Pages250–254We have reviewed the theoretical orientation, diagnostic criteria and management of early infantile autism at Children's Memorial Hospital. Brief reports of 8 cases were included, primarily to demonstrate the progress that may occur. We believe that many ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.3.250Publication date: 01 September 1963
Pages261–266This paper gives the psychiatric findings of 100 expiration of sentence offenders released from the Lorton Reformatory (D. C.) between Apr. 1, 1961 and Mar. 31, 1962. The Bureau of Rehabilitation, engaged the author as consultant in Apr. 1961, to study, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.3.261Publication date: 01 September 1963
Pages271–273Fifty-one psychiatric residents attended two workshops on Community Psychiatry and Public Health—Mental Health. Their reaction to and evaluation of these workshops is presented. These experiences suggest that residents are presently receiving only limited ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.3.271Publication date: 01 September 1963
Pages282-a–283An unusually severe acute brain syndrome secondary to diphenylhydantoin and pentobarbital is reported. Evaluation and diagnosis were delayed by the periodic quality of the disturbance seen which misled many to view it primarily as hysterical or ...
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