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Changes in Avoidance Conditioning Following Psychotherapeutic Treatment

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Conditioning Techniques in Clinical Practice and Research

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The use of avoidance conditioning in human subjects as a method for the diagnostic determination of conditions adversely affecting the functional integrity of the cortex was proposed originally by Gantt as early as 1938. In a series of subsequent studies the method was advocated for the determination of Korsakoff’s syndrome (1), generalized cortical pathology (2), and for the differentiation of psychogenic from organogenic psychoses (3).

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  1. Gantt, W. H., and Muncie, W.: Analysis of the mental defect in chronic Korsakoff’s Psychosis by means of the conditional reflex method. Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp., 70: 467–487, 1942.

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  1. Clinton C. Brown Ph.D.
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  1. Psychology Service and Research Center, New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    Cyril M. Franks Ph.D. (Director) (Director)

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Brown, C.C. (1957). Changes in Avoidance Conditioning Following Psychotherapeutic Treatment. In: Franks, C.M. (eds) Conditioning Techniques in Clinical Practice and Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-39876-0_7

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