American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 121
- Number 1
- July 1964
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1964
Pages26–32The literature is reviewed, and a case is presented of an acute psychotic reaction following the onset of phenothiazine therapy. The patient also suffered from loss of several sensory reactions and was considered a natural experiment in sensory ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.1.26Publication date: 01 July 1964
Pages45–47An attempt was made to determine if Piotrowski's alpha formula was, as he indicated, mainly applicable with early or mild psychotic states, or if it was equally effective with the more chronic disorders. Three groups of schizophrenics with mean lengths of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.1.45Publication date: 01 July 1964
Pages48–51One hundred and eighty senior medical students over the past 6 years who took their fourth year psychiatry course at the Massachusetts General Hospital (representing about one-fifth of those who graduated from Harvard Medical School) were asked to fill ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.1.48Publication date: 01 July 1964
Pages52–57The effect of admitting an unselected group of 90 committed psychiatric patients to an ordinary, open general hospital psychiatric ward was studied. Comparisons with 90 unselected regular patients were made by means of rating scales of behaviour and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.1.52Publication date: 01 July 1964
Pages58–60Two psychiatric practices, one private and the other essentially the same except that it is a part of a free government service, are compared by surveying 200 concurrent patients from each. Certain data were extracted from the case notes and compared. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.1.58Publication date: 01 July 1964
Pages61–64Our findings are that the ataraxic drugs do improve the condition of chronic patients sufficiently to effect leave for 25% as compared with 1%-4% in the past, and that various social factors appear related to leave potential. We are left, nonetheless, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.1.61Publication date: 01 July 1964
Pages66–67The 2497 suicides and 2017 homicides occurring in Texas during the years 1959, 1960, and 1961 were related to the 4 phases of the moon and to the apogeeperigee cycles of the moon during this period. No significant relationships were found.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.1.66Publication date: 01 July 1964
Pages67–69Five hundred randomly selected employers in the Greater Louisville area were mailed questionnaires concerning their attitudes toward the hiring or rehiring of individuals who had spent some time under treatment for mental illness. One hundred twenty-seven ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.1.67Publication date: 01 July 1964
Pages70–72The elevated pattern reversal rate demonstrated in phobic patients is consistent with the hypothesis that the phobic reaction is symptomatic of the disease general hyperattentionism. Phobic patients report more pattern reversals in 2 minutes (average 53.3)...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.1.70Publication date: 01 July 1964
Pages78–79An acute brain syndrome partially resembling the perceptual distortion reponse to LSD is described in a young man following the ingestion of a conventional dose of tetrachlorethylene for intestinal parasites.
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.1.78