American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 123
- Number 8
- February 1967
Article
Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages909–917Patients who are dependent on a depressant drug, or combinations of them, are being seen quite regularly in hospital psychiatric practice. After discussing epidemiology, etiology, and diagnosis, the authors emphasize the importance of differentiating ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.909Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages918–925A retrospectiee analysis is reported of 32 cases of suicide. Six patients who were in psychotherapy at the time of suicide are described in detail. A psychodynamic formulation of the clinical data suggests that transference hostility and dependency ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.918Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages926–929The authors describe a computerized nursing observation reporting system that records moment-to-moment patient behavior in a more objectively accurate, condensed, and accessible manner than has previously been possible. Since a basic goal of therapy is to ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.926Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages930–937Recruiting the nonpsychiatrist for postgraduate courses in psychiatry has been a major problem. Although feeling the need for appreciating the role of emotional factors in all illness, the nonpsychiatrist has not felt that postgraduate courses in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.930Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages938–946Pictorial cognition is one of many forms of thinking in nonverbal representations. The author describes the kinds of visual imagery and the circumstances of their occurrence and enhancement, and considers the relevant problems of reality testing, content, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.938Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages947–952Previous studies from the Lafayette Clinic have reported a protein factor, identified by the L/P ratio, found in significantly greater concentration in the plasma of chronic schizophrenic patients than in that of some control subjects. Other schizophrenic ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.947Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages952–962A double-blind clinical and chemical study of 131 hospitalized psychotic patients, totally removed geographically from the center at which chemical analyses were performed, demonstrated an inverse relationship between the quantity of cerebrospinal fluid ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.952Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages963–971The relationship between the personality of the physician and that of the patient in determining the outcome of psychotherapy has been of interest to many investigators. Primary attention in this paper is paid to studies designed to identify qualities in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.963Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages971–976Schizophrenia may involve a perceptual distortion characterized by an ontogenetically more primitive mode of perception in which parts of a whole are seen as separate and unrelated. In this study of perceptual distortion among four groups of patients, ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.971Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages976–979In this study of 36 schizophrenic patients, conventional antidepressant therapies did not result in a clinically observable lifting of depression among those patients who were seriously depressed in the hospital after acute psychotic symptoms had been ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.976Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages979–985Reports in the literature on the Mecholyl test suggest that schizophrenics with a marked reaction to Mecholyl tend to be acute cases with good prognoses, demonstrating relatively good adjustment both preceding and during the psychosis. Schizophrenics with ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.979Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages986–995From a group of 299 schizophrenic patients discharged after a study of short-term drug action, 254 were living in the community a year following initial discharge from the hospital. These expatients were evaluated to assess their community adjustment and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.986Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages996–1001In his work on schizophrenia, Eugen Bleuler attempted to reconcile contemporary psychiatric and psychoanalytic ideas. He found intrapsychic complexes, as described by Freud, at the root of the schizophrenic symptomatology and searched for a theory by ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.996Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages1005–1007Five psychiatric patients were given one millicurie of Hg197 intravenously; following this, lumbar and venous punctures were performed. The data suggest that Hg197 passes the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier. As indicated by this study and by the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.1005Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages1013–1018This paper has emphasized the need for collaboration between psychiatry and architecture. It has put forth proposals designed for the purpose of implementing new approaches to the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of persons with mental disorders. ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.1013Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages1023–1025During its seven years of use at Mississippi State Hospital, perphenazine has been very effective in treating acutely ill patients and as maintenance therapy in nonhospitalized patients. No attempt was made to compare perphenazine with other ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.123.8.1023Publication date: 01 February 1967
Pages1025–1026A case of Kleine-Levin syndrome is presented. Despite limited evidence that dynamic factors may have played a role in the onset of the illness, no etiologic basis was found and no conclusions were possible.
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