Consultations :
"I have not always been a psychotherapist. Like other neuropathologists,
I was trained to employ local diagnoses and electroprognosis, and it still
strikes me as strange that the case histories I write should read like
short stories and that, as one might say, they lack the serious stamp
of science. I must console myself with the reflection that the nature
of the subject is evidently responsible for this, rather than any preference
of my own. The fact is that local diagnosis and electrical reactions lead
nowhere in the study of hysteria, whereas a detailed description of mental
processes such as we are accustomed to find in the works of writers enables
me, with the use of a few psychological formulas, to obtain at least some
kind of insight into the course of that affliction."
Studies on Hysteria (1895) by Sigmund
Freud
[Image: Prof J M Charcot teaching at the Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris]
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