Psychosomatics 7: 382-384, 1966
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© 1966 Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
Persistent Somatic Symptoms Following Psychiatric Hospitalization Precipitated By The Recent Blackout: Two Cases
MICHAEL BLUMENFIELD M.D.1, and
LEWIS GLICKMAN M.D.2
1 Resident in Psychiatry, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y.
2 Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Downstate Medical College, State University of New York and Director, Psychiatric Admissions, Consultation and Emergency Treatment Service, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The recent blackout resulted in psychiatric hospitalization of at least two of two million six hundred thousand persons exposed to the power failure. Six months later there was impairment of function in the musculo-skeletal system so that the traumatic experience would necessarily be avoided in the event of another blackout.
