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Convulsion Therapy in War Psychoneurotics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Rankine Good
Rankine Good*
Affiliation:
Carstairs Hospital
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Extract

This communication is a summary of convulsion therapy in a series of 40 cases admitted for psychoneuroses occurring in war-time. It comments on similarities and differences observed during treatment as compared with the convulsion treatment of psychotics, and discusses the psycho-dynamics of convulsion therapy. It is assumed that the reader is acquainted with the elements of convulsive treatment and the various phenomena which may result therefrom.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 87 , Issue 368 , July 1941 , pp. 409 - 418
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1941 

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References

Good, R. (1940), Journ. Ment. Sci., 86, 491.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Idem (1940), ibid., March, 86, 260.Google Scholar
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