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Mardi Horowitz, MD; Nancy Wilner

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1976;33(11):1339-1344.

Abstract
• The clinical theory of the repetition compulsion is sometimes taken to mean that neurotic persons, when traumatized, will develop compulsive repetitions of the trauma. Our experiment suggests that there is a more general effect—that various types of persons, after a variety of stressful events, will tend to develop intrusive and stimulus-repetitive thought; the stress itself does not necessarily have to have a negative valence. Equivalent effects were noted after stimuli that aroused positive emotions and after those stimuli that aroused dysphoric affects.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 19, 1975.

Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, University of California, 401 Parnassus, San Francisco, CA 94143 (Dr Horowitz).

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