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Failures in psychiatric treatment : the proceedings of the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the American Psychopathological Association, held in New York City, June 1947 / edited by Paul H. Hoch.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychotherapy--Congresses.
- Psychotherapy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Grune & Stratton, 1948.
- Summary:
- The present symposium is, to our knowledge, the first attempt to present a general review of therapeutic failures with different psychiatric methods of treatment. It is obvious that successful cases are easy to report and the hesitancy to do similarly with unsuccessful ones is understandable. But to admit failures is a sign of intellectual and emotional maturity. Psychiatry is young as a science, battling against great handicaps because of inexact methodology as compared with the exact sciences. Nevertheless, it has amassed a large body of knowledge and has today a secure place in medical therapeusis. It is mature enough to admit failures and to analyze their origins. We believe, therefore, that the present volume will contribute to the better understanding of the theory and praxis of psychiatric treatment.
- Contents:
- General considerations in therapeutic failures
- Failures with psychoanalytic therapy
- Failure in treatment by the psychobiologic method
- Therapeutic failures with hypnosis
- Evaluation of the treatment of criminals
- Failures in the psychotherapy of children
- Failures in the psychosomatic case treatments
- Group Psychotherapy: An appraisal
- Heredity and constitution in relation to the treatment of mental disorders
- Failures with insulin shock therapy
- Failures with electric shock therapy
- Prefrontal lobotomy: A consideration of unsuccessful cases
- Failures in treatment of neurosyphilis
- Failures in the treatment of epilepsy
- Failures in social casework.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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