Understand how our nerves can go awry and how doctors sort it out.
This clinical guide explains the classification and treatment of functional nervous disorders, helping readers see how emotional control, memory, and body signals interact in real symptoms and patterns.
This book presents a practical framework for clinicians and students. It divides disorders into regressive forms like hysteria and progressive neuroses, describes stages, and outlines how environmental factors, memory, and hyperthymia influence presentation and prognosis. It also discusses diagnostic approaches, including psychoanalytic perspectives, psychotherapy, and the role of observing body responses and pain patterns in care.
- Clear, structured categories: primary, secondary, and tertiary hysteria; and progressive sympathetic neuroses.
- How emotion, environment, and memory shape symptoms and treatment approaches.
- Clinical strategies for assessment, diagnosis, and psychotherapy, including psycho-analysis where appropriate.
- Illustrative discussion of hyperthymia, memory recall, and the interplay with organic considerations.
Ideal for readers of clinical psychology and neurology who want a grounded, practice-minded view of functional nervous disorders.