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AN INVESTIGATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE AS AN ADJUNCT TO PSYCHOTHERAPY IN SOME NEUROSES

EUGENE A. HARGROVE, A. E. BENNETT, and MARION STEELEAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 110, Number 11

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.110.11.844

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1. A total of 100 patients were treated for anxiety or neurotic depression with carbon dioxide combined with psychotherapy or with psychotherapy alone.

2. Of 50 patients treated with carbon dioxide, two-thirds showed no change, one-third improved, none could be classified as having recovered socially.

3. Of 50 control patients treated with psychotherapy alone, three-fourths showed improvement or social recovery and one-fourth showed no change.

4. Patients treated by psychotherapy alone showed improvement on fewer treatments.

5. The explosive abreaction following administration of carbon dioxide could not be integrated into the patients' defense mechanisms.

6. The use of carbon dioxide therapy in our hands added no specific therapeutic effect but did add problems of transference and resistance that retarded or prevented recovery.

7. Treatment of patients with symptoms of anxiety or neurotic depression was best accomplished by psychotherapy alone.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 110 • Number 11 • May 1954

Pages: 844 - 849

PubMed: 13148373

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Published in print: May 1954

Published online: 1 April 2006

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EUGENE A. HARGROVE

The departments of psychiatry, Herrick Memorial Hospital and the A. E. Bennett Neuropsychiatric Research Foundation, Berkeley, and the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California.

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A. E. BENNETT

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MARION STEELE

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AN INVESTIGATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE AS AN ADJUNCT TO PSYCHOTHERAPY IN SOME NEUROSES

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