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TITLE Migraine Headaches, Altered States of Consciousness and Accident Proneness: A Clinical Contribution to the Death Instinct Theory
AUTHOR Melitta Sperling, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center; she has taught psychiatry, child psychiatry, and psychoanalysis for almost 30 years and continues to do so as a member of the Faculty of the Joint Committee for Postgraduate Education of the Kings County Medical Society, the Kings County General Hospital and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Sperling has published extensively.
ARTHUR SCHMALE, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. For the past 12 years he has been involved in teaching the psychological significance of somatic complaints and investigating the psychological setting of disease onset. He is a member of the Council of the American Psychosomatic Society and an editor of the “International Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.”
ANGEL GARMA, M.D. Founder and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. On psychosomatic medical themes, he has published several articles and two books: Peptic Ulcer and Psychoanalysis and El Dolor de Cabeza (The Headache).
At the last International Psychoanalytical Congress he presented “The Psychosomatic Shift from Obesity, to Migraine, Peptic Ulcer and Myocardial Infarction in a Homosexual.” He has never been prone to headaches.
KAREM MONSOUR, M.D. Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Southern California, and on the faculty of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Claremont Graduate School. His interest in migraine dates back to his 1959 paper “Migraine: Dynamics and Choice of Symptom.”
OTTO E. SPERLING, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center; Training Analyst and Supervisor at the Division of Psychoanalytic Education; Former President of The Psychoana