A 55-year-old male with an involutional psychosis precipitated by the traumatic loss of both legs with very painful phantom limbs was treated with electric shock. An improvement in the psychosis and a disappearance of the painful phantom limbs resulted. The mechanisms involved were discussed and relations to the causalgic state intimated.
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Joseph E. Pisetsky (1946) studied this question.
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