The Lotos-eaters, or Stress, Neurosis, and Tranquillizers

Nutcracker, neurosis, or sampling bias?

Tranquillizers

The last ten years have seen the introduction of many new drugs for the treatme' of psychotic disorders and practically every psychiatric symptom. They are alreat replacing the barbiturates which have been used as sedatives for over 50 years. These drugs aim at influencing the processes concerned in the development of psychiatric illness, e.g. schizophrenia and depression, or at controlling the...

The effect of academic stress and attachment stress on stress-eaters and stress-undereaters.

It is well established that stress is related to changes in eating patterns. Some individuals are more likely to increase their overall food intake under conditions of stress, whereas others are more likely to consume less food when stressed. Attachment style has been linked to disordered eating and eating disorders; however, comparisons of eating behaviors under attachment versus other types o...

The use of tranquillizers.

"Experimental neurosis" in cats: fact or artifact?

In an attempt to assess the validity of the phenomenon of "animal neurosis," the behavior of cats exposed to the type of conflict Masserman specified as being critical to the development of "experimental neurosis" was contrasted with that of cats simply confined in the conditioning apparatus for the same length of time. Comparison of the groups on the basis of the "symptoms" Masserman considere...