American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 99, Issue 3
November 1942
Article
November 1942
A MUSICIAN'S POINT OF VIEW TOWARD EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION
- Pages:317–325
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November 1942
THE ADMISSION OF PATIENTS TO HOSPITALS FOR MENTAL DISEASES
- Pages:326–329
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.326
Preview Abstract
The experience in Cologne and other places teaches us that free admission to mental hospitals without delay, without formality, without papers, has proved its workability. It serves best the interests both of the patient and the public. It is the best way ...
November 1942
IRRESPONSIBILITY OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS
- Pages:330–337
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.330
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1. The constitutional psychopath or the psychopathic personality represents the most difficult group of all the mentally sick individuals with which the medical and legal professions have to deal. Particularly baffling are those psychopaths who show ...
November 1942
COURSE IN MILITARY NEUROPSYCHIATRY
- Pages:338–347
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.338
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We have outlined our thoughts and experiences with a special one-month semester in military neuropsychiatry as a section of a general seminar. We feel that this brief experimental course helped to refresh both military and civilian physicians on subjects ...
November 1942
SOCIAL DATA IN PSYCHIATRIC CASUALTIES IN THE ARMED SERVICES
- Pages:348–353
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.348
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If five objective social factors (previous mental illness, broken homes, psychosis in the family, arrests and alcoholism) are studied in a group of military personnel who become psychotic it is significant that 72.2 per cent of them have one or more of ...
November 1942
WARTIME TASKS OF PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKERS IN GREAT BRITAIN
- Pages:358–363
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November 1942
NON-CONVULSIVE ELECTRIC (FARADIC) SHOCK THERAPY OF PSYCHOSES ASSOCIATED WITH ALCOHOLISM, DRUG INTOXICATION AND SYPHILIS
- Pages:364–373
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.364
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Psyche and soma, interrelated, contribute to the "reaction of delirium" in toxic-organic psychoses. Delirious behavior is determined more by the type of personality of the individual than by the somatic changes in the brain. Since the psychogenic ...
November 1942
CONSIDERATION OF RESULTS WITH PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY
- Pages:374–381
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.374
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This presentation, bringing purely clinical problems of psychoanalytic therapy to the foreground, has been made in the hope that it will encourage a more open consideration of the clinical results of the method. Through group comparisons of variegated ...
November 1942
SUBCONVULSIVE ELECTRIC SHOCK TREATMENT OF THE PSYCHOSES
- Pages:382–386
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.382
Preview Abstract
In conclusion, subconvulsive electric shock treatment by faradic current may be recommended for those patients who are disturbed, destructive, combative or otherwise difficult to manage. It has been used only in chronic cases but I believe if used early ...
November 1942
SPINAL INJURIES IN SHOCK AND EPILEPTIC CONVULSIONS
- Pages:387–390
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November 1942
THE TREATMENT OF PSYCHOSES WITH LONG PROTRACTED INSULIN COMA
- Pages:391–393
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November 1942
EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF INTRAVENOUS INSULIN TECHNIQUE IN THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASES
- Pages:394–397
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.394
Preview Abstract
1. A group of 33 patients with mental diseases of whom 24 had schizophrenia, was treated with insulin intravenously. Twenty-three patients were treated with the intravenous injection of unmodified insulin and 10 patients with the intravenous injection of ...
November 1942
A PREVENTIVE MENTAL HYGIENE PROGRAM FOR SCHOOLS
- Pages:398–405
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November 1942
INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF INHALATION OF 9 PER CENT OXYGEN FOR 20 MINUTES IN NON-PSYCHOTIC AND SCHIZOPHRENIC MALE SUBJECTS
- Pages:406–410
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.406
Preview Abstract
Twelve non-psychotic and 13 schizophrenic subjects were given 9 per cent oxygen in 91 per cent nitrogen for 20 minutes without any rebreathing of expired gasses. Neurologic examinations were made at 5-minute intervals during a preliminary control period, ...
November 1942
PSYCHIATRIC USES OF INTRAVENOUS SODIUM AMYTAL
- Pages:411–418
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.411
Preview Abstract
Sodium amytal intravenously is a valuable diagnostic and therapeutic agent in psychiatry meriting more usage than given. Many patients in whom shock therapy or hypnosis cannot be utilized can be helped therapeutically or palliatively by suitable ...
November 1942
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS AS MEASURED BY THE PAROTID SECRETORY RATE
- Pages:419–425
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November 1942
THE RÔLE OF THE PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKER IN THE SELECTION OF MEN FOR THE ARMED FORCES
- Pages:431–434
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November 1942
TIME ELEMENT IN THE TREATMENT OF DRUG ADDICTION
- Pages:435–438
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.435
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1. Custom has established six months as the minimum and nine months as the ideal period of treatment for drug addicts admitted to the U. S. Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Ky. 2. The minimum standard has been justified, to a certain extent, ...
November 1942
SYMMETRICAL BILATERAL GRANULAR ATROPHY OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX OF VASCULAR ORIGIN
- Pages:447–453
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.3.447
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A case of symmetrical, bilateral granular atrophy of the cerebral cortex is described. Topographically, the atrophy is limited mainly to those areas lying at the juncture of the vascular supply of the anterior, middle and posterior cerebral arteries. The ...
November 1942
The Function of the Orgasm. Sex-Economic problems of Biological Energy
- Pages:467–468
- Published Online:1 April 2006