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American Journal of Psychiatry

  • Volume 122
  • Number 2
  • August 1965

Article

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages135–140

Short-term therapy has more than utilitarian value. There are indications that it will, as its methodology becomes elaborated, develop into the treatment of choice for a considerable number of patients. This conviction is supported by observations from a ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.135

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages153–158

When tested on normal subjects and patients with various psychiatric disorders, the electric "sleep-inducing" devices have been found to be ineffective from a practical standpoint, although behavioral observations and EEG monitoring have indicated the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.153

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages159–163

The records of 50 wives of physicians admitted to a private psychiatric hospital have been reviewed. Despite a high level of adaptation in the early years of marriage, they later developed severe psychiatric illnesses requiring repeated hospitalizations. ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.159

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages164–169

The scope of this report covers 30 years of private practice experience by two psychiatrists who treated 84 drug addicts, emphasizing the diagnostic features, correlating therapeutic principles, the prognosis and the results of therapy. Each patient was ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.164

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages170–174

This study explored the feasibility of evaluating the pathology and motivation of 50 applicants to a public mental health clinic in 4 intake groups. Each group met for 5 or 8 sessions with a leader and observer. Diagnoses proved difficult to make in some ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.170

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages184–188

Basic military training is one of the few planned experiences in our society that exposes late adolescents to a rapid series of physical as well as psychological stresses, and which consciously attempts to introduce changes in orientation and values. This ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.184

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages195–202

To continue to remain effective mental hospital administration personnel may require a reevaluation of the organizations in which they are working members. This paper has discussed some aspects of an alternative approach to management, in contrast to the ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.195

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages208–209

The findings show that treatment of neurotic or psychotic depression with tranylcypromine or imipramine results in a shorter hospitalization than treatment with EST. Because we found that the length of hospitalization was approximately equal with either ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.208

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages210–211

In this preliminary study, SU-10704 proved to be effective in decreasing the level of psychopathology in chronic, primarily anxious clinic patients. The therapeutic effect was most marked in those patients in whom the "emotional" symptoms predominated ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.210

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages212–213

A poll of 60 attorneys revealed that they used psychiatric consultation sparingly. Deterrents cited were expense to clients, clients' resentment at being sent to a psychiatrist, and psychiatrists' unavailability as well as lack of interest in legal ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.212

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages213–214

The management of the disturbed aged patient requires a medication with few side effects and with a wide range of safety. On the basis of the results in this study, chlorprothixene appeared to be such a compound.

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.213

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages217–220

Hyperventilation syndrome apparently triggered dissociative reactions in two patients. Overbreathing under the examiner's direction reproduced dissociative reactions similar to those which occurred spontaneously. A rudimentary form of multiple personality ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.217

Publication date: 01 August 1965

Pages230-a–230

The item on Page 1219 of the June issue referring to the Maudsley lecture of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association is incorrect. Dr. Aldwyn Stokes informs the editor that he was one of a number of visitors to the combined meeting of the Royal Medico-...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.122.2.230-a

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