This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (4)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Masturbation As a Clinical Sign of Painful Somatic Disorders in Psychotic Patients: Report of Two Cases

WALTER E. MARCHAND, M.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1961;4(2):137-138.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Two previous articles by the author have demonstrated that a large proportion of psychotic patients offer no complaint when beset by physical ailments. While this may be only too obviously so in regard to numerous minor disorders, it nevertheless also holds true for major illnesses, including those in which the onset is usually both dramatically sudden and painful.^1,2 In psychotic patients chronic physical disorders and those with insidious onset are most frequently detected by routine yearly physical and laboratory examinations or by the discovery of weight loss. Acute medical and surgical disorders on the other hand are most frequently discovered by signs of altered physiological function which present clinically as weak-spell, staggering gait, syncope, dyspnea, vomiting, cyanosis, and jaundice; or by changes in behavior and in physical activity. Such changes may be the refusal to speak, eat, or walk, a request to stop taking part . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BEDFORD, MASS.

Chief, Medical-Surgical Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Bedford, Mass.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug. 12, 1960.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?