Psychosocial and Psychophysiologic Studies of Tuberculosis

• Main Authors: Thomas H. Holmes, Norman G. Hawkins, Ph. D, Charles E. Bowerman, Edmund R. Clarke, Joy R. Joffe
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1956
• Subjects: Alaskan Air Command; Arctic Aeromedical Labora; Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.541.8121; http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/19/2/134.full.pdf

on a comprehensive study of the relationship of psychosocial and psychophysiologic parame-ters to the natural history of tuberculosis. With a perspective based on the work of numerous investigators,1"20 free association interviews were carried out on a random sample of 200 patients with tuberculosis. As the data ac-cumulated, specific psychosocial constellations could be readily identified. The following ob-servations in this report were undertaken to clarify, validate, and formulate some of the generalizations adduced. In these investiga-tions, techniques from the sociologic, psycho-logic, and physiologic disciplines have been used. No uniform method has been applied to all observations. Each experiment was evalu-ated in context by the method or combination of methods deemed most likely to yield infor-mation about the question asked. The patients studied were in various stages of treatment and rehabilitation at Firland Sanatorium, the county tuberculosis facility at Seattle, Wash. According to the figures