American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 120
- Number 8
- February 1964
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages738–742The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of psychological treatment, using objective physiological indices as the basic criteria. Emphasis was placed on using only data that were recorded at the time of observation, rather than ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.738Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages743–749Perhaps for too long a time, psychiatrists have drawn their conclusions about behavior from the study of "patients" or deviants. Research on reactions to stress situations attempts to redress this imbalance by paying attention also to persons who handle ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.743Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages757–761Two teen-age cases of toxic psychosis associated with gasoline inhalation are described and compared with the so-called "model psychoses" evoked by mescaline, LSD =25 and psilocybin. The symptoms were predominantly autonomic, perceptual and affective. The ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.757Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages765–7711. A group of hospitalized psychiatric patients with an EEG temporal lobe focus without classic psychomotor epilepsy was compared on clinical variables to a control group matched for age, sex and diagnosis. In addition, comparisons were made to a known ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.765Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages772–778The first admissions to all psychiatric hospitals in Norway 1955-59 have been followed with regard to pattern of discharge and readmission until the end of 1960. These patients, whose entire hospital stay falls within the era of the psychotropic drugs, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.772Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages782–788This paper is an overview of the 6 years of existence of the Psychiatric Home Treatment Service and of the 4 clinical programs it pursued. The goal of the service was to define a new community approach to the care of those suffering from serious mental ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.782Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages793–797Forty-seven patients suffering from personality disorders manifested through somatic symptoms or behavioral crises were treated by short-term hospitalization on a ward reserved primarily for acute psychotic disorders. The patients had been refractory to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.793Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages800–801It is our impression that one of the fundamental reasons for the lack of early recognition of organic brain syndromes lies in the general trend of American psychiatric education during the past 3 decades. Proper emphasis on the psychological and emotional ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.800Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages801–803The antiparkinsonian medication of 30 mental hospital patients was suddenly removed. Half the patients were then placed on placebo. During the ensuing month they did not manifest any significant change in extrapyramidal symptomatology. The other half of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.801Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages803–805The majority of the problems enumerated, although typically chronic, are, for the most part, neither too serious nor too inevitable, provided periodic evaluations of the programs are made in terms of what they currently contribute to the total treatment ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.803Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages805–806it is possible to re-classify the so-called mental and emotional diseases (syndromes) in terms of attention, thus forming a nosology of attentional diseases. The quantitative assessment of this indicant (attention) provides the opportunity for the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.805Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages806–808The 106 homicides occurring in Houston in 1960, in which the time of occurrence could be established, were studied in terms of weather conditions at such times. Eleven weather variables were studied on an hour-by-hour basis for the entire year (...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.806Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages808–810One hundred patients hospitalized for psychotic types of depression were divided into two comparable groups. Half of the patients received 9 EST over a 3-week period. The other half received tranylcypromine and trifluoperazine b.i.d. The clinical symptoms ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.808Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages810–812In summary, we feel that perphenazine is a noteworthy means for treating most psychoses. To us, it is not just another tranquilizer. In our experience, it is obviously a most effective drug which often produces results where other therapies have miserably ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.810Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages812–814A double-blind study on 100 enuretic naval recruits failed to demonstrate any type of anti-enuretic effect of imipramine hydrochloride (Tofrānil).
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.812Publication date: 01 February 1964
Page816An unusual syndrome of drowsiness, unsteadiness and fine horizontal nystagmus is reported following the use of chlordiazepoxide and phenobarbital, which remitted upon cessation of barbiturate therapy. This suggests that therapies using more than one drug ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.120.8.816Publication date: 01 February 1964
Pages817–819Kahlbaum's original concept of catatonia as probablè brain disease in part manifested by "overstretching" or "overtensing" of the musculature was reflected in his choice of the term catatonia for the syndrome. Subsequent investigations of the curious ...
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