American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 123
- Number 1
- July 1966
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1966
Pages21–31The authors were impressed with the relatively high incidence of "classical" conversion reactions among troops evacuated to a psychiatric referral center in the Philippines following combat service in Viet Nam. Social and environmental pressures seemed to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.1.21Publication date: 01 July 1966
Pages32–39Previous studies have demonstrated that severity of language impairment is a critical determinant of long-term outcome for schizophrenic children in the age group of two to six years. Language impairment was therefore used as the major measure of severity ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.1.32Publication date: 01 July 1966
Pages40–44Psychopathological reactions to fatherhood probably occur with more frequency than is commonly recognized. Since the illness is usually attributed by the patient to other stresses, the importance of the recent birth of a child may be overlooked initially; ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.1.40Publication date: 01 July 1966
Pages45–54The psychiatric resident in 1961 is more likely to be male, older, have a larger family, and a much larger income than his counterpart in 1950. His training is more varied and intense and he is better satisfied with it. He is more apt to encounter an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.1.45Publication date: 01 July 1966
Pages55–65Cultural differences affect the incidence and mode of treatment of mental disorder among the two major populations of the Republic of South Africa—white and Bantu. Increasing Westernization of the Bantu tends to narrow the differences in mental illness ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.1.55Publication date: 01 July 1966
Pages66–70The psychiatric consultant's role in a training school is reviewed; particular attention is paid to 240 evaluations of juvenile and adolescent male delinquents. Suggestions are offered regarding a realistic and productive use of professional time in such ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.1.66Publication date: 01 July 1966
Pages71–77A number of factors appear to retard the implementation of new clinic practices designed to cope more effectively with widespread, multi-faceted disorders. To remove these deterrents to change, the author offers three premises: more and better knowledge ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.1.71Publication date: 01 July 1966
Pages91–92Sherrington's concept of successive induction and rebound, and Pavlov's concept of negative induction are grouped together under one comprehensive term—physiological induction. This concept in turn is used as an explanation for a number of phenomena ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.1.91Publication date: 01 July 1966
Pages97–100Out of a population of about 2,200 patients at Boston State Hospital in September and October of 1963, 164 patients were being treated with thioridazine. As a result of ophthalmological examination, five cases of pigmentary retinopathy were discovered in ...
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