MODIFIED INSULIN, PSYCHODRAMA, AND REHABILITATION TECHNIQUES IN THE TREATMENT OF ANXIETY AND TENSION STATES

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  • LEON L. RACKOW Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/75n51t06

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MODIFIED INSULIN, PSYCHODRAMA, AND REHABILITATION TECHNIQUES IN THE TREATMENT OF ANXIETY AND TENSION STATES" LEON L. RACKOW, M.D ...... Veterans Administration Hospital, Montrose, N.Y. INTRODUCTION The literature records the use of modified insulin in the treatment of psychiatric patients as far back as 1923 at which time it was noted chat the mental status of diabetics with depressive features improved under this form of treatment. Others recorded its use in the control of excited psychiatric patients and to increase appetite. In 1929 Appel, Farr and Marshall reported that insulin given to psychotic patients in doses up to sixty units a day before meals and over a four weeks period caused, beside an increase in appetite and food intake, an average gain in weight in males of about three pounds per week, and an improvement in their mental status

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2024-11-29

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Vol. 4 No. 3 (1951): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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