American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 104, Issue 8
February 1948
Article
February 1948
PREFRONTAL LOBECTOMY (EXCISION OF THE ANTERIOR AREAS OF THE CEREBRUM)
- Pages:513–523
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.8.513
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A new type of psychosurgical technique, namely, prefrontal lobectomy, is described. The advantages of this procedure over prefrontal lobotomy are presented. The results of prefrontal lobectomy are reported in 14 patients with 85.7% showing moderate to ...
February 1948
THE STRUGGLE FOR AND AGAINST THE INDVIDUAL IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
- Pages:524–527
- Published Online:1 April 2006
February 1948
DELUSIONAL AND HALLUCINATORY EXPERIENCES IN CHILDREN
- Pages:528–537
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.8.528
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The records of three groups of children—normal, preschool children; children with behavior and neurotic problems; and finally, psychotic children—were analyzed with a view of gaining information about and insight into hallucinatory and delusional ...
February 1948
INTELLIGENCE AND EMOTIONAL STABILITY
- Pages:548–554
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.8.548
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1. The clinical findings in the examination of over 30,000 men gave a very definitely higher incidence of emotional instability in the men diagnosed mentally retarded than in those diagnosed non-retarded. 2. Down-grading for instability decreased as 'M' ...
February 1948
NEW TRENDS IN HOSPITAL DESIGN
- Pages:555–564
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.8.555
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The one dominant note motivating our entire thinking on hospital design has been, "How does this or that feature improve the patient-doctor relationship?" We have not thought in terms of handling large numbers on a production line basis. This is best left ...
February 1948
SELF-INFLICTED GUN-SHOT WOUNDS—SURGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC CONSIDERATIONS
- Pages:565–569
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February 1948
COMPARATIVE ACTION OF ANTICONVULSANT DRUGS
- Pages:570–574
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.104.8.570
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A comparative study has been made in a group of institutionalized epileptic mental defectives of the anticonvulsant action of dilantin, tridione, and several barbiturate derivatives. The results indicate that dilantin has the most marked anticonvulsant ...
February 1948
Chronic Disease and Psychological Invalidism. (Psychosomatic Medicine Monographs.)
- Pages:588–589
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February 1948
Psychiatric Research. Papers read at the dedication of the Laboratory for Biochemical Research, McLean Hospital, Waverley, Massachusetts, May 17, 1946
- Page:589
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February 1948
Radicalism and Conservatism Toward Conventional Religion
- Pages:590–591
- Published Online:1 April 2006