Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2117

JOSEPH JULES DéJéRINE (1849-1917) Les manifestations fonctionnelles des psychonévroses, leur traitement par la psychothérapie. Masson et Cie 1911 ix, 561 pp., front. 23.2 cm.

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Déjérine based this work on thirty years of clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of various forms of functional disorders he had observed in his patients at the Salpêtrière. His coauthor, Gauckler, was initially Déjérine's student and later became his colleague. Déjérine was impressed by the emotional factors in hysteria, or neurasthenia as it was then known, and the apparent disorders of the respiratory, genital, and gastrointestinal organs. He believed that the rest cure of Mitchell (see No. 1957) was temporarily comforting to the patient but worthless as treatment. Neither did he feel that psychotherapy could be achieved by rationalization with the patient or a therapeutic discussion of moral principles. The causes, clinical manifestations, and methods of treatment, both successful and unsuccessful, are discussed at length and illustrated by many interesting case histories.

See Related Record(s): 1957

Gift of John Martin, M.D.