A study of "experimental neurosis" in cats.

Dimmick, Forrest L.; Ludlow, N.; Whiteman, Abigail

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“…Since the initial reports of observations of experimental neurosis in laboratory animals (Pavlov, 1927) there have been a vast number of studies in a variety of settings which have essentially confirmed Pavlov's findings. Although there have been some controversies regarding the identity between experimental neurosis and human neuroses and even more numerous attempts to rigidly define neurosis and delimit the phenomenon, there seems to be little doubt that it exists and that it can be produced in at least some members of all species generally used in the laboratoryfor example, sheep, goats, and pigs (Liddell, 1944); dogs and cats (Dimmick, Ludlow, & Whiteman, 1939;Dworkin, 1939;Gantt, 1944;Karn, 1940;Masserman, 1943;Wolpe, 1958); rats (Bijou, 1942;Cook, 1939); and primates (Jacobson, Wolfe, & Jackson, 193S;Krasnogorsky, 1925;Masserman & Pechtel, 1953).…”

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Decision making, conflict, and physiological arousal.

Johnson¹

1963

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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In order to evaluate the effects of difficult discrimination upon the physiological arousal of the organism, 4 groups of 15 female Ss were subjected to different degrees of discrimination difficulty in an avoidance learning situation. Those Ss who were subjected to relatively high degrees of difficult discrimination manifested higher levels of physiological arousal than did Ss who were not confronted with discrimination problems. The implications of this finding are discussed with regard to the etiology of experimental neurosis.

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Decision making, conflict, and physiological arousal.

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1963

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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“…Thus, in order to eliminate these reactions special measures had to be considered. 3 As already stated, in the experimental cage the anxiety reactions were associated with inhibition of eating even after 72 hours' starvation. This suggested that under different conditions eating might inhibit anxiety reactions: in other words, that the two responses might be reciprocally inhibitory.…”

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The formation of negative habits: a neurophysiological view.

Wolpe¹

1952

Psychological Review

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“…Gantt did not discover the phenomenon of "experimental neurosis", which had long been well known. Departing from the pioneering studies of Maria Erofeeva and Nadezhda Shenger-Krestovnikova in I. P. Pavlov's Laboratory at Leningrad (Pavlov, 1941, p. 341-342; see also Todes, 2014, especially chapter 36), many American psychologists and psychiatrists had published about this topic before the story of Gantt's dog was widely known and valued (Bijou, 1943;Cook, 1939;Dimmick, Ludlow, & Whiteman, 1939;Dworkin, 1939;Jacobson, Wolfe, & Jackson, 1935;Karn, 1940;Liddell, 1938;Maier, 1939;Masserman, 1946).…”

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W. Horsley Gantt, Nick, and the Pavlovian Science at Phipps Clinic

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2016

Span. J. Psychol.

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William Horsley Gantt is well known as one to the principal proponents of Pavlovian methodology in the U.S. After a long stay at Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's laboratory in Leningrad from 1925 to 1929, Gantt was invited by Adolf Meyer to join the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, where he founded and directed the Pavlovian Laboratory from 1930 to 1964. Soon after his arrival at Phipps Clinic in 1931, Gantt began a Pavlovian research program that included the investigation of nervous disturbances in dogs and clinical researches with psychiatric patients. In these studies, Gantt combined a physiological method (the conditional reflexes approach), with a psychiatric problem (nervous disorders) in the context of Meyer's psychobiology that established the person or individual as unit of analysis. This fact, concentrating upon a single individual, made Gantt studies with dogs recognizable and interesting to physicians, psychologists, and psychiatrists who also worked on individuals. In this paper, we use archival materials -including correspondence, notebooks, and unpublished autobiographical material- to present a case study, that of William Horsley Gantt and his dog Nick. We will explore the reasons why Gantt' studies on nervous disturbances with this dog captured the interest of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists.

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A study of "experimental neurosis" in cats.

Cited by 14 publications

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Decision making, conflict, and physiological arousal.

Decision making, conflict, and physiological arousal.

The formation of negative habits: a neurophysiological view.

W. Horsley Gantt, Nick, and the Pavlovian Science at Phipps Clinic

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