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| Arousal Patterns | 1 |
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| Omega: Journal of Death and… | 1 |
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Peer reviewedLachman, Sheldon J. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1982
Discusses voodoo illness, a form of psychosomatic illness which can result in death when sufficiently intense and prolonged. The extreme physiological arousal pattern to stimulation that comprises emotional behavior produces pathological changes in physiological functioning. Persons who are socially prepared or physically predisposed are…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Death, Diseases
