Conditioned-Reflex Treatment of Alcoholism
- 7 September 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 241 (10) , 368-370
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194909082411004
Abstract
FEBRUARY, 1949, marked the end of seven years of application of the conditioned reflex as a therapy for alcohol addiction at the Washingtonian Hospital. This fact calls for an evaluation of this part of the total therapeutic plan1 , 2 concerning chronic alcoholism.The present article is the first of two dealing with the rationale, technic, indications, contraindications, risks and psychologic aspects of the treatment, as well as its efficacy and methods of evaluating it.The last two decades have made it quite fashionable for any intelligent lay person, and a veritable shibboleth for a modern professional man, to announce that alcoholism . . .Keywords
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