American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 121
- Number 11
- May 1965
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1965
Pagesi–xiA mobile psychiatric team uses techniques which apply the principles of combat psychiatry in the giving of psychiatric care to decentralized or underprivileged populations. By being applied directly in each local area on a regularly scheduled basis, these ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.iPublication date: 01 May 1965
Pagesxii–xxivIn this study of the relationship between personality and autonomic reactivity to stress, a small group, 6 of 46 college students, were outstanding psychologically. They received the highest ratings for Intimacy and Involvement which referred to an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.xiiPublication date: 01 May 1965
Pages1043–10481. Five hundred cases that were diagnosed "post-traumatic psychoneurosis" were studied statistically with regard to the following variables: a. Variables of historical data, b. Variables of objective signs, c. Variables of symptom complexes, d. Variables ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.1043Publication date: 01 May 1965
Pages1049–1053A comprehensive method for the determination of urinary thioridazine and its metabolites is reported. It is based on adsorption of total urinary drug to a cation exchange resin, from which the drug content is subsequently eluted with 50% sulfuric acid. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.1049Publication date: 01 May 1965
Pages1065–1068Synanon is a relatively new, voluntary, private and non-profit experimental organization which has created a therapeutic program for narcotic addicts with limited goals. In a sense, a kind of unique, separate and transient society is provided for the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.1065Publication date: 01 May 1965
Pages1087–1090This study was an attempt to determine clinically the therapeutic efficacy and degree of memory impairment of unilateral ECT as compared to bilateral ECT. Two groups of 20 patients were given a course of 10 EST, one group unilaterally and the other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.1087Publication date: 01 May 1965
Pages1108–1109This study of 322 patients who sought help at two psychiatric facilities in the summer of 1963 in Los Angeles County indicates there is at least 2½ times higher incidence of migrants in such a sample than in the general population. Also, there was a 53% ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.1108Publication date: 01 May 1965
Pages1113–1115Maintenance convulsive treatment was recommended to 210 patients after a repeated attack of a psychotic illness had been terminated with ECT. Fifty-seven patients accepted, 153 patients refused. Of those who accepted, 12% relapsed during a period of up to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.1113Publication date: 01 May 1965
Pages1117–1119Thirty severely depressed patients received daily oral doses of 75 or 100 mg. desipramine, a metabolite of imipramine. Duration of therapy averaged 3 to 4 months and dosage was decreased gradually according to individual progress. Tranquilizers were used ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.1117Publication date: 01 May 1965
Pages1124–1127Six of 74 patients seen in psychiatric consultation who had brain syndromes attributed to senile, arteriosclerotic, or possible circulatory disturbance or disease within 2 weeks to 3 months developed severe physical illness. The brain syndrome and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.121.11.1124Publication date: 01 May 1965
Pages1127–1129A mental syndrome indistinguishable from delirium tremens developed after withdrawal in a case of chronic ethchlorvinol intoxication. Our findings are compared with the 3 other published cases, which appear quite similar. As Engel and Romano have noted, ...
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