CHARLES W. WAHL, M.D.; JOSHUA S. GOLDEN, M.D.; EDWARD H. LISTON JR., M.D.; DAVID G. RIMER, M.D., F.A.C.P.; AUGUSTUS S. ROSE, M.D.; DORIS SOGHOR, M.D.; DAVID H. SOLOMON, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Charles W. Wahl: Among the most interesting and significant advances in our knowledge of disease states and in our understanding of mental states are the complex interactions of psychic, physical, and organic stresses in the production of illness. In my opinion, nowhere is this more evident than in the toxic psychoses, formerly believed to be produced exclusively by a toxic insult to the cerebrum, whether by a drug or by some altered state of nutrition. It is now very definitely known from studies using sensory deprivation and lysergic acid diethylamide, plus a broadened clinical experience, that all of us
WAHL CW, GOLDEN JS, LISTON EH, RIMER DG, ROSE AS, SOGHOR D, et al. Toxic and Functional Psychoses: Diagnosis and Treatment in a Medical Setting. Ann Intern Med. ;66:989–1007. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-66-5-989
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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1967;66(5):989-1007.
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-66-5-989