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Pyschoanalysis: The key to understanding the Neurotic. Hysteric. Neurotic.
Mentally ill. To be deemed as such in the nineteenth century ...
Submitted by beth2106 on March 13, 2006
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Hysteric. Neurotic. Mentally ill. To be deemed as such in the nineteenth century was to be scorned by both doctors and society at large. These poor individuals were clearly not understood during the era of revolution and change in the early twentieth century. Hysterics and other neurotics suffered from physical ailments that had no basis in reality (Boeree 3). Physicians of the time refused to treat neurotics for they considered neurosis as functional, rather than anatomical or physiological, disturbances in the nervous system (Roth 94). The “treatments” that were offered for the neurotic were crude at best. Popular remedies among physicians were hydrotherapy and electrotherapy. The former involved spraying the patient with jets of very cold, almost freezing, water, and the latter utilized currents of electricity that were run through the body or applied to local areas. Both of these therapies resulted in severe side effects including pain, nausea, skin blistering, burns, and trembling (Roth 107). Society as a whole regarded the victims of neuroses as crazy and freakish. But fortunately for the neurotic, one man saw through the stigma surrounding mental illness and became the bridge over the gap between the hysteric and the rest of society. This man was Sigmund Freud and his theory of psychoanalysis was his most significant contribution to communication. Freud’s momentous contribution to psychology, his psychoanalytic theory, has catalyzed communication between patients and their analysts for the past one hundred years. This communication has made it possible for the neurotic to become a fully functioning member of society.
Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Molavia, current day Czech Republic. He was the oldest of the eight children in a Jewish family. His father, Jacob, was a merchant and Freud’s mother’s senior by twenty years (Jones 3). Sigmund was fortunate to have been born during the era of life sciences. In 1859, when Sigmund was only three...
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