"SHAM RAGE" IN MAN

HERMAN WORTIS and WILLIAM S. MAURERAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 98, Number 5

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.5.638

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1. The literature relative to "sham rage" is reviewed.

2. Two cases of "sham rage" in human beings are presented; one following insulin hypoglycemia, the other following carbon monoxide poisoning. In both cases, the involvement of higher centers is stressed, and the resultant "sham rage" is believed to be the result of uninhibited hypothalamic discharge.

3. The expression of emotion does not necessarily mean that the individual is experiencing that emotion.

4. There seems to be no reason for accepting the idea that the hypothalamus is the "emotional center" of the body. Affects and emotions are highly complicated psychosomatic processes, which require among other things a functioning cerebral cortex.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 98 • Number 5 • March 1942

Pages: 638 - 644

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Published in print: March 1942

Published online: 1 April 2006

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HERMAN WORTIS

The medical service of the psychiatric division, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, and the departments of psychiatry and medicine, New York University College of Medicine.

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WILLIAM S. MAURER

The medical service of the psychiatric division, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, and the departments of psychiatry and medicine, New York University College of Medicine.

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