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Psychosomatic Medicine 1:388-396 (1939)
© 1939 American Psychosomatic Society

Conditioning Neuroses in Dog and Cat

SIMON DWORKIN M.D., M.Sc.1

1 Laboratories of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Under identical conditions--except as to freedom of locomotion--dogs and cats were subjected to stimuli situations in which the nervous system was placed under undue strain. The situations involved delicate discriminations of pitch, and perception of sounds of liminal intensity. The harnessed dogs developed serious neurotic disturbances, mostly of an inhibitory nature. The freely moving cats also developed behavior disturbances, mostly of an excitatory nature, which were quite impermanent. While the difference of reaction may have been due either to different nervous systems, or to the mode of training, it seems logical to conclude that it was the opportunity for occurrence of gross bodily movements that determined the character of the neurotic disturbance.




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