A Psychophysiological Interpretation of Voodoo Illness and Voodoo Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheldon J Lachman (Wayne State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 345-360 |
| Publication date | 1983-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/pvg7-bh01-98xt-87be |
| OpenAlex | W2029138143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
Voodoo illness is a form of psychosomatic illness. When sufficiently intense and prolonged, the extreme physiological arousal pattern to stimulation that comprises emotional behavior produces pathological changes in physiological functioning and anatomic structure, which are psychophysiological and psychosomatic disorders. New stimuli may become associated with established autonomic reaction patterns that are emotional behavior; also particular autonomic reactions may be strengthened through differential reinforcement. Thus, emotional stimuli and emotional response patterns may be learned. When the emotional reaction patterns are sufficiently frequent or prolonged and sufficiently intense in the person socially prepared to react and physically predisposed (i.e., vulnerable via genetically determined or later acquired biological weakness), changes of such magnitude may occur in physiological functioning or anatomical structure as to be incompatible with continued life. Voodoo death corresponds to that formulation of psychosomatic death
Arousal · Pathological · Psychiatry · Psychophysiology · Weakness · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Neuroscience · Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
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Death by Suggestion
Verbal and Physiological Responses to Hypnotic Suggestion of Attitudes
Physiological Effects During Hypnotically Requested Emotions
Unexpected Death in a Patient who Wished to Die
"Voodoo" Death
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2017 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |