Some Observations on the Psychological Aspects of Cardiazol Therapy
- 1 May 1940
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Journal of Mental Science
- Vol. 86 (362) , 491-501
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.86.362.491
Abstract
In a recent paper (1, 2) Abse elaborates at some length the psychological aspect of cardiazol therapy, and suggests, among other things, that “asa result of repeated danger-situations and perceptual stimulation repression and organization (synthesis) follow as a psycho-biological necessity. The convulsion gives rise to objective anxiety and repression results, so that the ego, whose function it is, may deal with the situation. There may be factors (e.g. quantitative) which make this desirable conclusion impossible to establish… . The physician can exploit his relationship to the patient to the latter's benefit… . and he (the physician) can increase his knowledge of the operative conditions in the patient's life by observation of the pre- and post-convulsive episodes.”Keywords
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