ABSTRACT
At the second German Congress for Experimental Psychology, held at Wurzburg, Dr. Veraguth, and privatdocent in neurology at Zurich, reported upon a galvanic phenomenon, which he called "galvano-psychophysical reflexes". The author conducts a current of low tension through the human body, the places of entrance and exit of the current being the palms. Very early in the course of these experiments it was discovered that the action of the galvanometer was not in direct relation with the strength of the stimulus but rather with the intensity of the resulting psychological feeling-tone. The complex of the intention to commit suicide, to which strong feelings are attached, betrayed itself by different psychological disturbances in the experiment. Hence the association experiment is a good means of fathoming and of analyzing the personality. There is moreover the difficulty that the physical and physiological part of the experiment is still obscure, notwithstanding the work of Tarchanoff, Sticker, Sommer, and Veraguth.
