Sources of Tension in Bronchial Asthma

Acute Bronchial Asthma

“…In Fig. 19 Helplessness and hopelessness were frequently far out of proportion to the discouraging reality of the physiologic distress. Table 1 also shows that of the phenomena that persist through the larger part of an attack, though not necessarily present at the start of it, by far the most prominent are depressive manifestations.…”

Asthma, Melancholia, and Death

“…15 It came during a phase of psychoanalysis when the patient was going through cycles of comparative health and stability which would gradually deteriorate and usually culminate in violent anger, anxiety and despair, depressive, often transvestite behavior, and severe asthma. He had finished a course of ACTH on Jan. 2, 1962, had gone through such a cycle and, when urine collection was begun on Jan. 17,1962, was on the verge of overt relapse. The "occasion' Jan. [17][18]1962, as judged from his psychoanalytic session on Jan. IS, was characterized by marked ambivalence, ideas of being an infant attached to or inside his mother contrasting with images of exploding rockets.…”

“…He had finished a course of ACTH on Jan. 2, 1962, had gone through such a cycle and, when urine collection was begun on Jan. 17,1962, was on the verge of overt relapse. The "occasion' Jan. [17][18]1962, as judged from his psychoanalytic session on Jan. IS, was characterized by marked ambivalence, ideas of being an infant attached to or inside his mother contrasting with images of exploding rockets.…”

“…17 He was first seen on a medical ward of the Boston City Hospital because of severe asthma of 3 years' duration, associated with profound depression. 17 He was first seen on a medical ward of the Boston City Hospital because of severe asthma of 3 years' duration, associated with profound depression.…”

Psychological Variables in Allergic Disorders: A Review

“…One solution to this problem has been used in several studies: a prediction about overt behavior has been derived from psychoanalytic hypotheses and tested in a laboratory setting. Thus, there have been predictions that the mother-child interaction in asthma would lead to greater need for recognition in the asthmatic 85 and a higher level of aspiration. 97 -124 An accumulation of studies of this kind which attempt to integrate clinical findings and experimental methods would help to appraise the relevance of the French and Alexander hypotheses and contribute a good deal of basic information.…”