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Psychosomatic Medicine 29:643-647 (1967)
© 1967 American Psychosomatic Society

Organ Awareness and Organ Activation

SEYMOUR FISHER PH.D.1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, N. Y. 13210

Two studies were undertaken to determine if an individual's degree of awareness of specific organs in his body is related to their actual activation levels. Organ awareness was determined by means of a paired-comparison procedure that involves reporting which of various sectors of one's body are most perceptually prominent. In a first study, awareness of stomach and heart proved to be significantly correlated with respective measures of activation level of these organs. In a second, replicating study, heart awareness once again was found to be significantly correlated with heart activation level. Self-observation may be potentially useful in predicting organ activation level and perhaps organ disease.

Submitted on November 14, 1966




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