A CASE OF SLEEP PARALYSIS
Koichi Terayama, Hiroo Yoshikama
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences March 1, 1953 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1953.tb01072.x (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Case study Case report Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 1 |
| Population | A single patient in Japan with sleep paralysis |
| Key findings | The authors argue that a homosexual conflict factor was present and that an ambivalent attitude toward it played an important role in the formation of the patient's sleep paralysis symptoms. They describe this as the first reported case of sleep paralysis in Japan. |
Abstract
SummaryWhile it has been long assumed that there should actually be more cases of sleep paralysis than those reported in Americo, this is the first report in Japan until this date. Of three opinions concerning the genuine nosological form we have adopted that of Schneck treating the case chiefly psychoanalytically. It seems that we have fairly well succeeded in segregating homosexual conflict factor existent; t hereby it was clearly brought out that the ambivalence attitude against the factor played an important role in the symptom formation of the disease.