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Understanding of coping and health problems in man will be greatly advanced by the study of stress-related disorders in animals. Analysis of the etiology of animal disorders suggests which variables might also be important factors in human disease processes. Thus, an understanding of the psychological factors involved in stress-related disorders in animals is highly relevant to a complete understanding of human psychosomatic problems. In this chapter, I shall review our state of knowledge of the psychological factors which are associated with one stress disorder, gastric ulceration, in rats. Psychologists may use such a “model” disorder either to generate a general psychosomatic model relevant to animals and man, or to test theories of psychosomatics which have been derived from human clinical and experimental studies. Any such theory must be tested empirically, and this may only be done by using animals. Apart from ethical reasons, use of laboratory animals with known genetic and developmental background eliminates to some extent the problems of individual differences and past history which beset human work. In this way, we shall be able to elucidate the major psychological factors associated with the development of stress disorders.
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Murison, R. (1980). Experimentally Induced Gastric Ulceration: A Model Disorder for Psychosomatic Research. In: Levine, S., Ursin, H. (eds) Coping and Health. NATO Conference Series, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1042-6_14
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