American Journal of Psychiatry
- Volume 99
- Number 2
- September 1942
Article
Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages164–1671. We have reviewed 200 consecutive case histories of soldiers discharged from the army at Camp Lee, Virginia, because of neuropsychiatric disabilities. 2. Of that group about one-half were psychoneurotic, a little less than a third psychotic, and about ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.164Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages168–173According to Karpman(10), "The material for malingering must come from the unconscious reservoir of the individual.....It is a rather frequent observation that malingerers often press into service a minor experience for the purpose of gaining desired ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.168Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages174–180This is the second of a series of three papers dealing with mental deterioration in epilepsy. Comparison was made of the mental state of 449 "symptomatic" and 1456 "essential" epileptics. Twenty-six per cent of the symptomatic and 10 per cent of the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.174Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages181–187Suicide in mental hospitals has been studied by tabulation of various factors as well as by analysis of individual case histories in 18 patients who committed suicide at the Eloise Hospital from 1929 through 1941. The statistical approach, although of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.181Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages201–202The results of insulin-shock therapy, with an immediate recovery rate of 55 per cent, show a tendency to level off at about 33 per cent in the second, third, and fourth years. (This tendency continues in the few cases which could be followed for 5 years.) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.201Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages203–209A case of prolonged coma has been presented, the blood sugar findings discussed, and several of the various mechanisms set forth that could contribute to the abnormalities observed in these findings. The relationship of the blood sugar findings to the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.203Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages210–217A comparative study of a group of EEGs of 126 schizophrenics and 81 manic-depressives revealed significant differences in the distribution of certain measurable factors. The distribution of the types of EEG pattern in the total psychotic group showed that ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.210Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages218–2231. Unidirectional electrostimulation was therapeutically applied in convulsive doses to 176 hospitalized psychiatric patients. The present report covers 2,746 convulsive reactions induced through left temple (negative), vertex-of-skull (positive) ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.218Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages224–228The psychiatric aspects of oculogyric crises occurring in post-encephalitic Parkinsonism are considered as dissociation phenomena. As demonstrated in three representative cases, the symptomatology follows the pattern usually seen in the neuroses and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.224Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages231–237The total results of all groups comprising the follow-up study of the initial group plus the follow-up study of the new group may be summarized as follows: Of 93 patients receiving phenobarbital (1½-10 grs.) for 5-44 months there was marked reduction of ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.231Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages243–2471. A study of 100 psychoneurotic women patients admitted to the New York Hospital, Westchester Division between 1927 and 1937 has been made. 2. A review of the family background revealed that these individuals came pre-dominantly from large families in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.243Publication date: 01 September 1942
Pages252–254In alcoholic psychoses an essentially uniform clinical course is usually encountered. In order of increasing severity, the progression is: automatism, delusions, hallucinations, delirium, stupor, convulsions, coma and death. With the exception of the last ...
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