
@article{ref1,
title="What price healing? A fragmentary inquiry",
journal="Journal of the American Medical Association",
year="1930",
author="Jelliffe, Smith ely",
volume="94",
number="18",
pages="1393-1395",
abstract="A recent striking experience has convinced me that its outlining may not be amiss. It deals with a situation that has been repeated several times in my clinical work. I would also briefly report two other cases of related significance and thus offer a contribution to the conception or idea that not infrequently an acute or even a chronic psychosis may follow the &quot;cure,&quot; surgical chiefly, of a longstanding somatic disorder. There are a number of extremely valuable theoretical considerations underlying this general situation, enough in my opinion to justify the fragmentary presentation of these three cases.Case 1.--A colleague asked me to consult with him about &quot;Miss G.&quot; She was suffering from a mild agitated depression. She had made one attempt at suicide by illuminating gas and had hovered dangerously near to a window ten stories above the ground. She had been acting queerly only about two or<p />",
language="en",
issn="0002-9955",
doi="10.1001/jama.1930.02710440031010",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1930.02710440031010"
}