Disturbances of Bladder Function Associated With Emotional States

Alterations of bladder function commonly occur as results of irritative or obstructive lesions of the genitourinary tract or as manifestations of structural neurologic disease, but it has been observed that they may occur in the absence of such lesions and in association with life situations provocative of emotional stress. The present report concerns an experimental study of human subjects with respect to urinary frequency on the one hand and retention on the other. METHOD AND MATERIAL The problem of obtaining and recording valid data concerning the structure of personality, attitudes, emotions, states of feeling and reactions has not been satisfactorily solved but was approached in this instance through repeated interviews with the patient and members of his family, analysis of dreams, intravenous administration of amobarbital sodium (amytal sodium® and projective psychologic tests. In studies of the stomach, the nose and the colon of the human subject it has been shown