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Sensory Deprivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. G. Thorpe
J. G. Thorpe*
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Banstead Hospital, Sutton, Surrey
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Exploratory experimental work into the effects of sensory deprivation on human subjects has developed rapidly during the past decade and many reports have been published. It would appear to be necessary, however, to pause for a moment and to review the work which has so far been executed with a view to facilitating the systematic investigation of this phenomenon.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 107 , Issue 451 , November 1961, pp. 1047 - 1059
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1961 

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