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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 122
  • Number 10
  • April 1966

Article

Publication date: 01 April 1966

Pages1102–1109

Of 173 voluntary patients followed after discharge, data were obtained regarding outcome patterns during the first two years on 156. Nine postdischarge patterns were isolated. Over-all, 29 percent had outcomes considered good, 29 percent were equivocal ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1102

Publication date: 01 April 1966

Pages1109–1116

In this study, 618 suicidal veteran patients were followed up for a period of one month to 14½ years, averaging 4.6 years. Of these, 615 were successfully traced. Twenty-one of these (3.4 percent), all males, had committed suicide. By computation of man-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1109

Publication date: 01 April 1966

Pages1116–1121

The case histories of two groups of schizophrenic patients with markedly different outcomes on follow-up were studied by one of us who did not know the outcomes. Of the 54 factors of possible prognostic significance that could be scored as present or ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1116

Publication date: 01 April 1966

Pages1125–1131

An effort has been made to present a useful structural and practical view of two open heterogeneous outpatient groups involving 29 psychotic and borderline military wives. Fourteen patients (48.3 percent) were diagnosed as schizophrenic; six (20.7 percent)...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1125

Publication date: 01 April 1966

Pages1139–1146

The goals and the treatment plan for the obsessional states have been outlined as follows: 1) To discover and elucidate the basis for the excessive feelings of insecurity which require absolute guarantees before action is pursued. 2) To demonstrate by ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1139

Publication date: 01 April 1966

Pages1165–1171

The OIT has led the author to conclude that the human brain can better be understood and treated as a cross-correlation pattern recognition system in the cybernetic sense. With this view, he has attempted to unify the diverse phenomena of chromaphilia, ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1165

Publication date: 01 April 1966

Pages1174–1178

RNA, extracted from the brain of rats trained to approach a food cup in response to a click, did not influence the behavior of untrained rats when injected intraperitoneally.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1174

Publication date: 01 April 1966

Pages1178–1181

An attempt to integrate day-care patients on the general psychiatric wards of our hospital has been unsatisfactory, as evidenced by the fact that of the first 40 patients admitted, 21 were unable to continue on day-care status to discharge. Reasons for ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1178

Publication date: 01 April 1966

Pages1185–1188

A clinical trial of alpha-methyldopa (Aldomet) in elated states is reported. Four drug trials were conducted in three "manic" patients at dosage levels up to 6 gms. per day. No therapeutic effect was noted, although a pharmacologic effect as evidenced by ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.10.1185

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