The Psychiatric Aspects of Enuresis

Anderson, Forrest N.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1930.01940040115013

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“…Routine treatment consists of a variety of supportive measures aimed at relieving the child's guilt, increasing his confidence, and becoming his ally by dissuading the use of all punitive and harsh procedures on the part of the mother. Many authors (Anderson, 1930;Kanner, 1948;Mowrer & Mowrer, 1938) have felt that these routine measures, combined with the suggestive influence and positive attitude of the therapist, are the main factors leading to improvement. The results of research using routine supportive measures alone (Anderson, 1930) or routine measures in comparison with specific treatment (Adler, 1959;Brown & Ford-Smith, 1941) indicate that these routine measures are at least as effective in controlling enuresis as any of the specific drugs or other physical praxes employed.…”

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Symptomatic treatment of acquired and persistent enuresis.

Novick

1966

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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2 groups of latency-age male enuretics were given symptomatic treatment consisting of routine supportive contact followed, if necessary, by the wetting-alarm treatment for enuresis. 1 group was composed of 22 persistent enuretics (those who have wet since birth) and the other of 23 acquired enuretics (those who have started to wet after a period of continence). In contrast to the persistent enuretics the acquired enuretics responded more favorably to routine contact alone, took less time, wet less frequently, and showed a faster rate of decrease in the course of symptomatic treatment. However, they had a higher rate of relapse, and had more symptoms and more deterioration in other areas of behavior in general after treatment.

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Section: Symptomatic Treatmentmentioning

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Symptomatic treatment of acquired and persistent enuresis.

Novick

1966

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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“…Here we run into difficulty because of lack of knowledge. Anderson (2), in his excellent review of the physiology of normal micturition, states it is known that some sort of cerebral control exists over the process but that just what happens is largely speculative. Ford (6) says that the voluntary control of the bladder is apparently dependent upon the integrity of the uppermost part of the motor cortex in the paracentral lobule close to the area in which the motor control of the legs is represented, and that the efferent fibers which convey impulses from these regions to the spinal cord seem .to form a part of the pyramidal tracts or at least to be intimately associated .with the pyramidal tracts.…”

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A Study of Training in Voluntary Control of Urination in a Group of Problem Children

Huschka

1943

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Psychic Enuresis in Normal Children

Lewis¹

1932

Am J Dis Child

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It would seem superfluous to stress the importance of psychic factors in the causation of enuresis in children. The significance of these factors has been realized for many years and has been emphasized by all who have studied the subject. Only recently this aspect was fully considered by Anderson,1 who reviewed the literature in an exhaustive and admirable manner. The object of the present paper is not to call attention to the psychic factor, but rather to show that this factor is capable of experimental study; in other words, that it can to a large extent be controlled and regulated at will. As far as we are aware, no study of this kind has been reported. It seemed that if a technic of this nature could be established, it would render possible an accurate study of this disturbing disorder and, incidentally, an appraisal of the many pharmacologic and therapeutic agents that are recommended for its cure.This study was carried out in a model institution for child care which harbors children up to 4 years of age, thus affording opportunity for a long period of observation of the physical and mental status both previous and subsequent to our test. The children are kept in a main building which has large, light and well ventilated dormitories as well as in smaller buildings which are equipped with individual glass cubicles. Enuresis has been and is an important problem in this institution, a fact that was brought out strikingly at the beginning of the study when we were able to find only eight children among forty, from 3 to 4 years of age, who did not wet themselves by day or by night. These eight children, seven of whom were boys, were carefully observed in the dormitories during a preliminary period of two weeks so as to be certain that they were absolutely and at all times continent. Some of them were among the brightest in the institution, and as a whole the group may be considered representative of this age period. Before

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The Psychiatric Aspects of Enuresis

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Symptomatic treatment of acquired and persistent enuresis.

Symptomatic treatment of acquired and persistent enuresis.

A Study of Training in Voluntary Control of Urination in a Group of Problem Children

Psychic Enuresis in Normal Children

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