American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 120
- Number 4
- October 1963
Article
Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages320–3251. We have shown again and with a larger group of patients the effects of RNA administered intravenously upon the memory performance of patients suffering from organic memory defect. 2. We have demonstrated that it is possible to make a beginning in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.320Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages326–331A series of 67 drivers arrested for driving in an intoxicated state were examined to determine the incidence of alcoholism and psychic illness: 38 (57%) drivers were alcoholic, 10 (15%) were classified as "probably alcoholic," 4 were pre-alcoholic and 15 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.326Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages332–344From our work, we would venture the following impressions: 1. Negro children, young and old, in most cases endure the stresses of initial desegregation in Southern cities without evidence of significant psychiatric illness. In order to understand why this ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.332Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages345–349We have commented upon the role of the psychiatrist as an individual and as a member of the helping professions in a changing society, with particular reference to his responsibilities in the development and use of health insurance plans. Current pre-...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.345Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages350–356During a decade which was of decisive importance for the later development of psychoanalysis Jung made many significant contributions. His association experiments confirmed Freud's hypothesis of repression which proved to be the cornerstone of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.350Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages357–3661. This paper is part of a larger research project guided by the following questions: What is the nature of psychiatric symptoms in adolescent patients? How do the symptoms in this group compare with those of a non-patient group? What happens to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.357Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages367–376The lifetime clinical histories of 12 remitting schizophrenics, whose lives spanned up to 85 years, are reviewed. Such fully remitting schizoprenics constitute the 10%-15% best outcomes of an unselected schizophrenic population. After first admission 8 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.367Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages377–381The 67 suicides and 373 suicide attempts occurring in Houston in 1960, in which the time of occurrence could be established, were studied in terms of weather conditions at time of their occurrence. Eleven weather variables (temperature, wind speed, wind ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.377Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages389–391The results of treatment with haloperidal at the Towers Hospital, Leicester, England, confirm those of Continental workers in the same field. We agree with their opinions (3, 4, 11, 12), that haloperidol is without any doubt a major advance in the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.389Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages392–393To prevent any aggravation of underlying anxiety or agitation during antidepressant therapy, trifluoperazine was given with tranylcypromine to 40 newly admitted depressed patients. Response to therapy was measured by improvement in mood and change in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.392Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages393–395Phenoxypropazine is compared with amitryptiline in the treatment of 78 hospitalised patients suffering from primary depressive disorders. Most patients on either drug responded well, there being no significant difference in outcome between the 2 drug ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.393Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages396–397A new approach to a patient with conversion reaction of 1-year's duration was discussed, whose difficulties were aggravated by psychotherapeutic inaccessibility. Administration of LSD-25 in 3 sessions resulted in complete removal of the conversion ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.4.396Publication date: 01 October 1963
Pages397–398This report outlines the care of a patient with glaucoma complicating a depression and illustrates the successful use of EST, and later, of a phenothiazine compound. The complication of glaucoma is an infrequent one, but when it occurs the lack of readily ...
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