CONCURRENT OBSERVATIONS OF BEHAVIOR CHANGES AND OF ADRENOCORTICAL VARIATIONS IN A CYCLOTHYMIC PATIENT DURING A PERIOD OF 12 MONTHS

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Article1 October 1954CONCURRENT OBSERVATIONS OF BEHAVIOR CHANGES AND OF ADRENOCORTICAL VARIATIONS IN A CYCLOTHYMIC PATIENT DURING A PERIOD OF 12 MONTHSNICHOLAS D. RIZZO, M.D., HENRY M. FOX, M.D., JOHN C. LAIDLAW, M.D., GEORGE W. THORN, M.D., F.A.C.P.NICHOLAS D. RIZZO, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, HENRY M. FOX, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, JOHN C. LAIDLAW, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, GEORGE W. THORN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-41-4-798 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptI. REVIEW OF LITERATUREII. PSYCHOLOGIC BACKGROUNDThe PatientOveractivityDepressionProjectionFamilyPrevious EpisodesHospitalization for DepressionInterval Between Hospitalization for Depression and Re-admissionIII. CLINICAL COURSE DURING 12 MONTHS OF OBSERVATIONIV. RELATIONSHIP TO PSYCHOTHERAPISTV. PSYCHOLOGIC INTERPRETATIONVI. BIOCHEMICAL STUDY DURING 12 MONTHS OF OBSERVATIONMethodSummary of Biochemical FindingsVII. INTERPRETATION OF BIOCHEMICAL FINDINGSVIII. PSYCHOENDOCRINOLOGIC CORRELATIONEmotional drives and phantasy determine the response of the psychotic individual to a greater extent than is true of the non-psychotic, who is more directly influenced by external reality. Measurable biochemical changes presumably reflect this crucial shift in the...Bibliography1. FoxGifford HMS: Psychological responses to ACTH and cortisone, Psychosom. Med. 15: 614, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Jacobson E: Contribution to the metapsychology of cyclothymic depression, in Affective disorders, Phyllis Greenacre, Editor, 1953, International Universities Press, Inc., New York, pp. 49-83. Google Scholar3. Cleghorn RA: A short history of the relationship of endocrinology to psychiatry, Internat. Rec. Med. 166: 175, 1953. Google Scholar4. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Received for publication March 1, 1954.From the Medical Clinic of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.†This investigation was supported in part by the Medical Research and Development Division, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, under Contract No. DA-49-007-MD-213, in part by a grant from the Ford Foundation, and in part by a research grant A-19 (C3) from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service. 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