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Published Online: August 1973

Crisis, Conversion, and Cult Formation: An Examination of a Common Psychosocial Sequence

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

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An overview of prescientific medicine, therapeutic communities, and psychoanalysis is given in an attempt to discover the generic factors operating in all interpersonal therapies. The authors hypothesize that the placebo effect rests on the universal need of humans for a group and, by symbolic extension, a system. Further, they hypothesize that a common therapeutic process follows the sequence of crisis, conversion, and cult formation.

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American Journal of Psychiatry
Pages: 861 - 864
PubMed: 4351998

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Published in print: August 1973
Published online: 1 April 2006

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Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann Medical College, 230 North Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19107
Professor and Chairman, Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann Medical College, 230 North Broad St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19107

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