title: Sensory deprivation and clinical psychiatry.
abstract: Sensory deprivation as a scientific procedure was conceived in the early 1950s, intensively studied in the early 1960s, and applied in a limited way in the 1970s. From a consideration of the data, it is clear that clinical psychiatry could benefit from its more general application in the 1980s.
mesh_terms: D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D011570:Psychiatry; D012107:Research Design; D012683:Sensory Deprivation