44. THE PROGNOSIS WITH THE INSULIN SHOCK THERAPY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PROCESS OF RECOVERY
Abstract
The shock treatment affects non-specifically the brain and inactivates the morbid process there. Whether it also acts on the somatic causa morbi is not known. Certainly the inherited schizophrenic constitution remains unaffected. At any rate it is of great value to possess a tool with which we can remove an important link in the pathogenetic chain, the reactive process in the brain.
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