A BIOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SUGGESTION ABOUT CERTAIN MENTAL DISORDERS

A Biochemical and Pharmacological Suggestion about Certain Mental Disorders.

Recent findings in this laboratory1' 2 and elsewhere3 , 4have permitted an understanding of some aspects of mental diseases in relation to the hormone-like compound, serotonin. Furthermore, these findings lead directly to a suggestion for a logical treatment of diseases known as "schizophrenia." The experimental observations have been made solely on laboratory animals, but they have reached a p...

Mental Suggestion in Everyday Life

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Pharmacological treatment in mental health disorders after trauma

On Mental Suggestion, Association, and Reproduction

From Hobbes to the present day considerable attention has been paid by philosophers to this subject. So little,however, was known of its history until recently, that Priestley claims for Locke the honour of having first observed this great mental process, and Hume takes to himself the credit of having first generalized its laws,' which, according to him, are resemblance, contiguity in time or p...

Beliefs about essences and the reality of mental disorders.

Do people believe mental disorders are real and possess underlying essences? The current study found that both novices and practicing clinicians held weaker essentialist beliefs about mental disorders than about medical disorders. They were also unwilling to endorse the idea that mental disorders are real and natural. Furthermore, compared with novices, mental health clinicians were less likely...