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Ketamine ‐ facilitated induced anxiety therapy and its effect upon clients' reactions to stressful situations
Author(s) -
Sappington A. A.,
Corssen G.,
Becker A. T.,
Tavakoli M.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197904)35:2<425::aid-jclp2270350240>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - arousal , anxiety , psychology , ketamine , affect (linguistics) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , communication
Abstract Evaluated the role of physiological arousal in the Induced Anxiety therapy procedure. Assigned 21 normal S s to either conventional Induced Anxiety, Induced Anxiety supplemented by the drug ketamine during arousal, or a no‐treatment condition. The ketamine group was superior to the conventional group which was superior to the no‐treatment group in reducing negative affect experienced during stressful situations. Most of the reduction was in depressive affect. The superior results obtained by increasing physiological arousal could not be accounted for by increased subjective emotional arousal.