American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 122
- Number 11
- May 1966
Article
Publication date: 01 May 1966
Pages1240–1248This paper details a method of selecting a group of relatively healthy adolescents, describes their characteristics and compares them with adolescents who are psychiatrically ill. Using the traditional psychiatric concept of health, i.e., freedom from ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.11.1240Publication date: 01 May 1966
Pages1248–1257"Precipitating causes" can only be meaningfully evaluated within the context of the individual's total biography and from the perspective of what these situations have meant to him. The process whereby the adolescent comes to view suicide as the "only ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.11.1248Publication date: 01 May 1966
Pages1258–1264Fourteen psychiatric patients were evaluated by two psychiatrists before and after treatment with either chlorpromazine or placebo. The rating interviews were tape-recorded and the recordings were rated by two other psychiatrists who did not see the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.11.1258Publication date: 01 May 1966
Pages1265–1269The use of the procedure as practiced by the authors for allaying apprehension and reassuring the patient and physician is not considered a trivial indication. In the cases where we have used it for this purpose, it was probably one of the determining ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.11.1265Publication date: 01 May 1966
Pages1270–1274This is a preliminary report of a study of patients with chronic renal failure who may receive hemodialysis or a renal homograft. In the few cases studied both of these procedures diminished the severity of the ego dysfunction concomitant with renal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.11.1270Publication date: 01 May 1966
Pages1292–1293High daily doses of diazepam given over a period of 4 months to 12 long-term chronic schizophrenic females failed to produce any sustained improvement in comparison to the degree of control previously obtained with phenothiazines. Side effects were very ...
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