Psychanalysis, Its Theories and Practical Application
by A. A. Brill
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217746311
Paperback|9780217746311
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI THE ACTUAL NEUROSES Neurasthenia and Anxiety Neurosis; their Symptoms, Mechanism, Etiology and Relation to the Psychoneuroses Freud divides the neuroses into psycho and actual neuroses. The psychoneuroses comprise hysteria and compulsion neurosis (doubts, obsessions and phobias) while the actual neuroses include neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis. The sexual life plays an important part in the determination of both classes. But whereas hysteria and compulsion neurosis are altogether of a psychogenetic origin, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis are due to somatic sexual injuries. As the typical symptoms of neurasthenia Freud mentions headache, or pressure in the head, spinal irritation, and dyspepsia with flatulence, and constipation. By adhering closely to these symptoms one can easily differentiate the real neurasthenia from the pseudo-neurasthenias such as the organically determined nasal reflex neurosis, the neurotic disturbances of cachexias and arteriosclerosis, the early stages of progressive paralysis, and some of the psychoses. Concerning the etiology Freud says Neurasthenia always originates whenever the adequate (action) unburdening is replaced by a less adequateone, like the normal coitus under the most favorable conditions by a masturbation or spontaneous pollution.1 Bearing in mind this symptom-complex, neurasthenia ceases to be the big garbage can/' as Forel fitly calls it, and becomes a rather limited entity. For it is known to every observer in this field that neurasthenia in the generally accepted sense may comprise almost anything from anxiety neurosis to psychoses proper. Well developed cases of dementia prsecox, paresis and other psychoses are often diagnosed and treated for months, even years, as neurasthenics. That anxiety p...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217746311 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217746314 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 226 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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