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Volume 107, Issue 6

December 1950

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December 1950

A SURVEY OF ITALIAN PSYCHIATRY, 1949

PAUL V. LEMKAU, and
CARLO DE SANCTIS

Pages:401–408
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.401

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December 1950

FAMILIAL IDIOCY DUE TO NEURONAL LIPIDOSIS (SO-CALLED LATE AMAUROTIC IDIOCY)

GEORGE A. JERVIS

Pages:409–414
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.409

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The case of a patient is described who showed slowly progressive mental deterioration with generalized muscular spasticity. No ocular manifestations were observed at any time. Death occurred at the age of 35 years. The patient was the seventh in a sibship ...

December 1950

COMPARATIVE RESULTS IN SEIZURE CONTROL USING PHENOBARBITAL, DILANTIN, AND MESANTOIN

D. B. RUSKIN

Pages:415–421
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.415

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Phenobarbital is still the most effective anticonvulsant in treatment of grand mal epilepsy. Phenobarbital, if incompletely effective, when used alone, is still more effective when supplemented with either Dilantin or Mesantoin than any single drug used ...

December 1950

GROUP THERAPY FOR EPILEPTICS

GUY C. RANDALL, and
WILL C. ROGERS

Pages:422–427
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.422

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From The above study the following conclusions are drawn: 1. That patients show improvement under group therapy as readily as with individual therapy. 2. That certain Latin-American patients respond to group therapy more readily than to individual ...

December 1950

ROLE OF HYPNOSIS IN DIFFERENTIATION OF EPILEPTIC FROM CONVULSIVE-LIKE SEIZURES

DONALD B. PETERSON,
JOHN W. SUMNER, and
GORDON A. JONES

Pages:428–433
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.428

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The differential diagnosis of idiopathic epilepsy from psychogenic seizures was discussed from the points of view of difficulty of diagnosis, inadequacy of differentiating data, and the benefit of exact diagnosis to the patient and the taxpayer. An ...

December 1950

CONSTITUTIONAL FACTORS IN THE PROGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

NATHAN S. KLINE, and
ASHTON M. TENNEY

Pages:434–441
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.434

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1. In a series of 2,100 consecutive admissions to the Veterans Administration Hospital, Lyons, N. J., 72% of the schizophrenics were photographed in the standardized somatotype position shortly after admission. 2. These somatotype photographs were rated ...

December 1950

MEASURES OF MENTAL HEALTH FROM THE HUMM-WADSWORTH TEMPERAMENT SCALE

DONCASTER G. HUMM, and
KATHRYN A. HUMM

Pages:442–449
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.442

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In undertaking to find a measure to give us a quantitative basis for the prediction of temperamental integration, we computed the difference between normal and each of the other components on the Humm-Wadsworth profile and, also, the sum of these ...

December 1950

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SERVICES IN THE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL

ARTHUR O. HECKER

Pages:450–454
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.450

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December 1950

TRANSITION OF OBSESSIONS INTO DELUSIONS

ALFRED GORDON

Pages:455–458
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.455

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December 1950

PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT FOLLOWING LOBOTOMY

C. KNIGHT ALDRICH

Pages:459–462
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.459

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The problems of all 10 of the clients of a family agency who have had psychosurgery are reviewed. From the point of view of several of the families, continued hospitalization of the patient would have presented fewer problems than resulted from surgery ...

December 1950

A METHOD OF EVALUATING A THERAPEUTIC AGENT

ALBERT J. STUNKARD

Pages:463–467
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.463

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1. A method of evaluating a therapeutic agent in psychiatric disorders is described. [see Tabel 1 in source pdf] 2. Advantages and disadvantages of such a method are discussed. 3. This method is used in a study of the effects of dibenamine in 30 patients ...

December 1950

SOL LEVY

Pages:468–469
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.468

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December 1950

MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS OF THE STATES

PAUL V. LEMKAU

Pages:470–471
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.470

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December 1950

Pages:472–473
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.472

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December 1950

REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE

WINFRED OVERHOLSER,
KARL M. BOWMAN,
FRANCIS J. BRACELAND,
DAVID M. LEVY, and
HARRY C. SOLOMON

Page:473
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.473

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December 1950

Pages:474–476
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.474

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December 1950

Dianetics : The Modern Science of Mental Health

ROBERT E. PECK

Pages:477–478
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.477

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December 1950

Experimental Foundations of General Psychology

WALLACE A. RUSSELL

Page:478
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.478

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December 1950

Meaning and Content of Sexual Perversions

HENRY A. DAVIDSON

Pages:478-a–479
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.478-a

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December 1950

Gregorio, The Hand-Trembler: A Pyschobiological Personality Study of a Navaho Indian

G. GORDON BROWN

Page:479
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.479

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December 1950

The Magic Cloak: A Contribution to the Psychology of Authoritarianism

E. O. CHRISTENSEN, and
BEN KARPMAN

Pages:479-a–480
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.479-a

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December 1950

Introduction to Psychopathology

L. E. HINSIE

Page:480
Published Online:1 April 2006

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.107.6.480

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