A Preliminary Investigation into Abreaction Comparing Methedrine and Sodium Amytal with other Methods

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Abstract
In abreaction under any of the methods in use, a phase of cortical excitation is followed by a phase of temporary cortical inhibition with rupture of pre-existing patterns of conditioned reflexes and behaviour, a phase in which new modes of behaviour are easily adopted, the ultra-paradoxical phase (Pavlov, 1934). In this phase the patient is extremely suggestible, and this corresponds to psychological transference always found in post-abreactive states (Shorvon and Sargant, 1947).

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