American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 112, Issue 3

September 1955

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September 1955

COURSE AND OUTCOME OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

F. A. FREYHAN

Pages:161–169
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.3.161

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1. Long-span observations of 2 samples of schizophrenic patients, 20 years apart, in a setting of comparative uniformity disclose duplication of hospital separations since 1940. 2. Modern clinical management accounts for this significant improvement. 3. ...

September 1955

TRACER IODINE STUDIES ON THYROID ACTIVITY AND THYROID RESPONSIVENESS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

EDWARD H. CRANSWICK

Pages:170–178
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.3.170

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1. Thyroid activity has been studied by measurement of 24 hours' fractional uptake of tracer dose of I₁₃₁ in 31 schizophrenics and 35 normal subjects. 2. Following T.S.H. (10 mg.) intramuscular injection, there has been shown to exist a highly significant ...

September 1955

SOCIAL MOBILITY AND MENTAL ILLNESS

A. B. HOLLINGSHEAD, and
F. C. REDLICH

Pages:179–185
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.3.179

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1. The hypothesis that social mobility is related to psychoneurosis and schizophrenia was tested as part of a large study on social class and psychiatric disorders in the metropolitan New Haven community. 2. Methods in studying the social mobility of 25 ...

September 1955

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND JOB ADJUSTMENT OF PRIVATE HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIC AIDES

JEAN O. LOVE

Pages:186–189
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.3.186

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Seventeen educational criteria were examined to see if they differentiated between psychiatric aides whose job adjustments were rated as satisfactory, as opposed to those whose job adjustments were unsatisfactory or partially satisfactory, and those whose ...

September 1955

EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN EPILEPSY

WILLIAM F. CAVENESS

Pages:190–193
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.3.190

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Two cases are presented to illustrate the importance of emotional and psychological factors in epilepsy. Attention is directed to the personality changes that arise as a reaction to seizures. It is noted that emotional stress may act as a precipitant to ...

September 1955

LONELINESS AND SOCIAL CHANGE

CLAUDE C. BOWMAN

Pages:194–198
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.3.194

September 1955

PRELIMINARY REPORT OF A CONTROLLED MENTAL HEALTH WORKSHOP IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

Pages:199–205
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.112.3.199

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1. A control mental health workshop was set up in a public school system. A volunteer group of teachers and the administrative group of principals, assistant principals and heads of departments were separately exposed to 15-week 1 ½hour seminars on mental ...

September 1955