The Neuroses and their Treatment

The Common Neuroses: Their Treatment by Psycho-Therapy. An Introduction to Psychological Treatment for Students and Practitioners

[Research and treatment of war neuroses at the Clinic for Nervous and Mental Diseases at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow before World War II in the context of psychiatry in Europe].

The aim of this article is to offer an overview of the research into diagnosis and treatment of war neuroses at the Clinic for Nervous and Mental Diseases at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow before the outbreak of World War II. It also includes a profile of the work of Prof. Jan Piltz, the then director of the Clinic, and his major scientific achievements. The publications cited in the art...

Hypnosis in Treatment of Neuroses Due to War and to Other Cavses

Although many authorities on war neuroses (Kardiner/ 1941; Miller, 1940) recommend the use of hypnosis in the treatment of early traumatic neuroses of war, one gains the impression from a survey of the recent literature on this subject that hypnosis is being little used in World War II. Instead, there appears to be an increasing tendency to use the barbiturate drugs, especially sodium amytal. I...

The schizophrenias, the neuroses and the covered wagon; a critical review

OBJECTIVE In order to compare their validity, this review applies scientific standards for sustaining the neuroses, the schizophrenias and bipolar disorders as separate "bona-fide" psychiatric diseases. The standards for disease validation demand specific and unique symptoms. METHOD We review a wide variety of clinical and basic science comparisons between schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar ...

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The "torpillage" neurologists of World War I: electric therapy to send hysterics back to the front.

The French neurologists and psychiatrists who were mobilized during the Great War were confronted with numerous soldiers with war neuroses, often with novel clinical manifestations such as camptocormia. They addressed hysteria and pithiatism according to concepts that had been formed before the war, and many doctors considered these soldiers to be malingerers. As a result, the use of aggressive...