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Psychosomatic Medicine 8:53-57 (1946)
© 1946 American Psychosomatic Society

Bronchial Asthma and Affective Psychoses

Report of Two Cases Treated with Electric Shock

EDWARD F. KERMAN M.D.1

1 2338 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Md.

Two cases have been described in which the patients had suffered for years from bronchial asthma. Both later experienced symptoms of affective psychoses. During the depressive period, all signs of asthma disappeared. Electric shock treatment caused improvement of the mental illness and, coincident with it, the asthmatic symptoms returned. Certain personality characteristics elsewhere described, such as mood swings, paranoid features and self-punishment drives, were found to exist in these two patients.




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