American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 99, Issue 2
September 1942
Article
September 1942
ANALYSIS OF CERTAIN FACTORS IN HISTORIES OF TWO HUNDRED SOLDIERS DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY FOR NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES
- Pages:164–167
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.164
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1. 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 ...
September 1942
THE SELF-INFLICTED INJURY
- Pages:168–173
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.168
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According 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 ...
September 1942
BRAIN INJURY, DRUGS, AND ENVIRONMENT AS CAUSES OF MENTAL DECAY IN EPILEPSY
- Pages:174–180
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.174
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This 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 ...
September 1942
SOME ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF SUICIDE IN THE MENTAL HOSPITAL
- Pages:181–187
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.181
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Suicide 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 ...
September 1942
MANIC-DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSES AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
- Pages:188–193
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September 1942
HISTORY OF THE FIRST PSYCHOPATHIC INSTITUTION ON THE AMERICAN CONTINENT
- Pages:194–195
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September 1942
FURTHER FOLLOW-UP RESULTS IN INSULIN-SHOCK THERAPY
- Pages:201–202
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.201
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The 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.) ...
September 1942
AN UNUSUAL CASE OF PROLONGED COMA IN HYPOGLYCEMIC SHOCK TREATMENT
- Pages:203–209
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.203
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A 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 ...
September 1942
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EEGS OF SCHIZOPHRENIC AND MANIC-DEPRESSIVE PATIENTS
- Pages:210–217
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.210
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A 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 ...
September 1942
UNIDIRECTIONAL ELECTROSTIMULATED CONVULSIVE THERAPY
- Pages:218–223
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.218
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1. 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) ...
September 1942
UNIT REACTION STATES IN OCULOGYRIC CRISES
- Pages:224–228
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.224
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The 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 ...
September 1942
EVALUATION OF CONTINUED THERAPY WITH PHENYTOIN SODIUM
- Pages:231–237
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.231
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The 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 ...
September 1942
HOSPITAL TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH PSYCHONEUROTIC DISORDERS
- Pages:243–247
- Published Online:1 April 2006
https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.243
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1. 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 ...
September 1942
THE PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF MARIHUANA INTOXICATION
- Pages:248–251
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September 1942
SOME DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF ALCOHOLIC PSYCHOSES
- Pages:252–254
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https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.99.2.252
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In 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 ...
September 1942
Psychological Effects of War on Citizen and Soldier
- Pages:313–314
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September 1942
The March of Medicine. Number VI, of The New York Academy of Medicine Lectures to the Laity
- Page:315
- Published Online:1 April 2006
September 1942
Directory of Medical Specialists Certified by American Boards
- Pages:316-a–316
- Published Online:1 April 2006