This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...on admission. I hope that I have not unintentionally misinterpreted or misunderstood Dr. Freud's writings. But before passing from this subject I must, with much deference, differ from his statement as to sexual causation. He states that in hysteria there is always an hereditary or constitutional factor which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...on admission. I hope that I have not unintentionally misinterpreted or misunderstood Dr. Freud's writings. But before passing from this subject I must, with much deference, differ from his statement as to sexual causation. He states that in hysteria there is always an hereditary or constitutional factor which takes the form of the sexual constitution, and that, given a normal vita sexualis, a neurosis (hysteria, neurasthenia, and other obsessional and phobic psychoneuroses) is impossible. This does not accord with my experience, now somewhat considerable, of these neuroses. I have seen scores of neurasthenics and hysterics whose sexual life-history and constitution were absolutely normal. Briquet long ago disputed the idea of the sexual origin of hysteria, and made statistical inquiries among various classes of the community (married, celibate, and prostitute) which entirely supported his position; and I have also made similar inquiries, always with the same result.1 In any case, I cannot but regard it as a most undesirable thing for any medical person, and particularly for one of the opposite sex, to make investigations into the dead memories of a sexual past and to call them into a state of activity. To my mind such a procedure would be hazardous, harmful, and wholly unjustifiable. Dr. J. Babinski,2 one of the most celebrated neurologists of Paris, evidently regards all true hysterical symptoms as mental in origin. He expresses the view that all the 1 Lecture VII, p. 175. 2 "Demembrement de l'Hysterie traditionnelle," by J. Babinski. Imprimerie de La Se1naitu Midicale, Paris, 1909, and La Semainc Mtdicale, January 1909. PITHIATISME 157 dealing only with those hysterical symptoms which are admittedly psychogenic. I see no objection to...
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Good. First American edition. 262 pages, illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Bookplate of W. A. Jones MD, listed as Chief-of-Staff Northwestern Hospital in 1911. His signature across title page. Embossed stamp of Hennepin County Medical Society at bottom corner of title page. White call numbers removed from spine. No other marks. Savill delivered a series of lectures on the topic to colleagues at the West End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, between 1896-1907, linking a number of medical phenomenon--which had been in question--to hysteria. Chapters include: I. "On the Pathology Of Hysterical Attacks and of the Hysterogenic Reflex"; II "The Pathology of Hysterical Cerebral Attacks"; III "On Hysterical Motor Disorders"; IV Hysterical Disorders of Sensation and Pain"; V "On Certain Vaso-Motor and Exudative Skin Symptoms Prone to Occur in Hysterical Subjects"; VI "The Psychology and Psychogenesis of Hysteria"; VII "The Etiology of Hysteria: General Conclusios"; VIII "The Treatment of Hysteria"; IX "Hysterical Joint Disorder"; X "On Acroparaesthesia, Erythromelalgia, and Other Vaso_Motor Disorders"; XI "Vaso Motor Symptoms and Their Bearing on The Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease".
