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Their Relationship to GSR Activity in Free Imagery Experiments

ERNEST KAFKA, MD; MORTON F. REISER, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;16(1):34-40.

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EXPERIMENTAL clarification of the relationships between coincident physiological and psychological activity remains a difficult problem because many internal factors interact among themselves and with external stimulation in determining physiological and psychological responses. Many of these relevant factors have been studied in the past.

The Laceys,^1,2 Wilder,³ Block and Bridger,⁴ and others⁵ have shown that base levels of autonomic activity and individual differences in responsivity affect physiological responses. Ax,⁶ Schachter,⁷ Funkenstein,⁸ and Mordkoff⁹ have shown that physiologic changes can be correlated with experimental manipulations that induce affective responses within subjects. Wolff, Mason, and their coworkers,^10,11 and Sachar¹² have been interested in how subjects deal with chronic stress and have demonstrated that adaptive success in the face of chronic stress is meaningfully correlated with low levels of endocrine secretion, while relative failure to master stress . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb 10, 1966.

This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, March 19, 1966, Philadelphia.

Reprint requests to Montefiore Hospital, 111 E 210th St, Bronx, NY 10467 (Dr. Reiser).

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