COMPULSION NEUROSIS IN A CHILD

Institutional Neurosis

Letter from chicago: compulsion.

About a quarter of a century ago I failed psychiatry because of my imperfect understanding of the obsessive-compulsive disorders. I had not grasped the difference between compulsions and obsessions, the professor pointed out from behind his big desk; and I had written that these disorders were rare when in fact they were exceedingly common. So I spent the summer clarifying these points in my mi...

Geriforte in Anxiety Neurosis*

T h e clinical spectrum of anxiety ranges from a normal experience to a psychopathological state. Anxious patients usually present with symptoms that can be divided into four major groups: 1. Subjective feeling 2. Cognitive disturbances 3. Behavioural changes, and 4. Somatic complaints Patients with anxiety experience loss of confidence in their daily activities with autonomic hyperactivity and...

Compulsion Resistant Anonymous Communications

We study the effect compulsion attacks, through which an adversary can request a decryption or key from an honest node, have on the security of mix based anonymous communication systems. Some specific countermeasures are proposed that increase the cost of compulsion attacks, detect that tracing is taking place and ultimately allow for some anonymity to be preserved even when all nodes are under...

A New Neurosis. (Thomsen's Disease)

symptom spasmodic and tonic cramp in muscles, occurring suddenly and irregularly on attempting voluntary movement. In January, 1883, MM. Ballet and Marie published a case of this disease (.Archives de Ndurologie), naming it "muscular spasm at the commencement of voluntary movements." In March, 1883, Westphal brought two cases of the disease before the Society of Medicine of Berlin, and quoted s...