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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

F. Houston
F. Houston*
Affiliation:
De La Pole Hospital, Willerby, Hull
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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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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 98 , Issue 413 , October 1952 , pp. 707 - 710
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1952 

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