The ingestion of hallucinogenic mushrooms by Siberian tribes of the Kamchatka peninsula and by Indians of the Mexican highlands has been carried out in ritual and orgy for centuries. Ødman and Schübeler have advanced the hypothesis that the furious rage ...

November 1956

SOME FACTORS IN THE EMOTIONAL REACTION OF CHILDREN TO DISASTER

Pages:416–422
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.416

November 1956

STRESS AND PSYCHIATRY

HANS SELYE

Pages:423–427
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.423

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After a brief enumeration of key-references to the literature on stress in psychiatry, the following specific problems are discussed on the basis of personal experiments: 1. An "operational definition" of stress, based on measurable indicators of this ...

November 1956

FEAR AND ANXIETY IN THE COURSE OF ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY

ALFRED GALLINEK

Pages:428–434
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.428

November 1956

EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS OF ANXIETY

DAVID MCK. RIOCH

Pages:435–442
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.435

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Consideration of experimental studies on animals and humans indicates that a number of different phenomena are ordinarily included in the general concept of "anxiety." The varieties of precipitating events and the varieties of responses are sufficiently ...

November 1956

PSYCHOSOMATIC APPROACH TO ANXIETY

ROY R. GRINKER

Pages:443–447
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.443

November 1956

DISCHARGE FROM STATE HOSPITAL IN RELATION TO COMPETENCY

E. H. CRAWFIS

Pages:448–450
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.448

November 1956

SEMINARS FOR EXECUTIVES AND INDUSTRIAL PHYSICIANS

WILLIAM C. MENNINGER, and
HARRY LEVINSON

Pages:451–454
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.451

November 1956

MOOT QUESTIONS IN PSYCHIATRIC ETHICS

RALPH B. LITTLE, and
EDWARD A. STRECKER

Pages:455–460
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.455

November 1956

CLINICAL NOTES

DAVID J. IMPASTATO

Page:461
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.461

November 1956

GASTRO-INTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE AS A COMPLICATION OF RESERPINE ADMINISTRATION: REPORT OF TWO CASES

DOLORES DILLON, and
JEAN M. SWAIN

Pages:462–463
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.113.5.462

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Two cases of bleeding from the gastro-intestinal tract during the course of reserpine administration in the treatment of mental illness are described. The fact that both patients had been under hospital observation for several years without previous ...

November 1956