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Psychiatry

Psychiatry of adrenocorticotrophic hormone and of cortisone into PSYCHIATRY medical practice has opened a new field for psychiatry because of the at­ tendant mental changes observed after the administration of the substances. The findings concerning possible beneficial effects in mental disease allow no conclusions at present. Of very great significance is the observation that indi­ viduals who have a severe somatic symptom (for instance, rheumatoid ar­ thritis) and are relieved from the somatic distress may develop a psychotic episode in the course of their improvement. Whether this type of episode is directly related to changes in central nervous system functions or has to do with the emotional disequilibrium produced by the sudden removal of symp­ toms and the loss of psychological defenses against overwhelming emotional reactions is a question under considerable debate [Ludwig (5)]. PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS "Life Stress and Bodily Disease," the proceedings of the December, 1949 meeting of the American Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases (6), presents an impressive array of reports concerning a great variety of abnormalities of visceral functions observed in time relationship to different forms of emotional strain. There is conspicuous progression from the older notions that a special kind of personality http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Medicine Annual Reviews

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Publisher
Annual Reviews
Copyright
Copyright 1951 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
Subject
Review Articles
ISSN
0066-4219
eISSN
1545-326X
DOI
10.1146/annurev.me.02.020151.001251
pmid
14847550
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Abstract

of adrenocorticotrophic hormone and of cortisone into PSYCHIATRY medical practice has opened a new field for psychiatry because of the at­ tendant mental changes observed after the administration of the substances. The findings concerning possible beneficial effects in mental disease allow no conclusions at present. Of very great significance is the observation that indi­ viduals who have a severe somatic symptom (for instance, rheumatoid ar­ thritis) and are relieved from the somatic distress may develop a psychotic episode in the course of their improvement. Whether this type of episode is directly related to changes in central nervous system functions or has to do with the emotional disequilibrium produced by the sudden removal of symp­ toms and the loss of psychological defenses against overwhelming emotional reactions is a question under considerable debate [Ludwig (5)]. PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS "Life Stress and Bodily Disease," the proceedings of the December, 1949 meeting of the American Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases (6), presents an impressive array of reports concerning a great variety of abnormalities of visceral functions observed in time relationship to different forms of emotional strain. There is conspicuous progression from the older notions that a special kind of personality

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Annual Review of MedicineAnnual Reviews

Published: Feb 1, 1951

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