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Successful Hypnotic Abreaction after Twenty Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. R. Leahy  and
I. C. A. Martin
I. C. A. Martin
Affiliation:
St. James's Hospital, Leeds, 9
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It is now widely accepted that abreaction as a technique can most usefully be applied in the field of psychoneurotic reactions arising from exceptionally traumatic experiences. During the last world war, ether and intravenous barbiturates were extensively used in the treatment of battle neuroses, often with dramatic results (Sargant and Slater, 1940; Shorvon and Sargant, 1947). For the less spectacular syndromes of peace-time, such methods are probably best applied to investigation and elimination of resistances encountered in the therapeutic situation (Horsley, 1943).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 497 , April 1967 , pp. 383 - 385
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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