RT Journal
A1 Mayer EE
T1 "The treatment of hysteria"
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD January 18
VO 72
IS 3
SP 214
OP 214
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610030060029
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610030060029
AB To the Editor: 
    —There is so much that is good in Capt. J. M. Wolfsohn's contribution concerning the treatment of hysteria (The Journal, Dec. 21, 1918, p. 2057) that it is regrettable that he has added statements which negative a great deal of the positive part of his paper. His statement that "very little has ever been contributed to the treatment but volumes on the classification of hysterical disabilities" sounds peculiar when one remembers the volumes that have been written concerning hypnotism, reeducation and psychanalysis in the treatment of hysteria. He is modest enough at the beginning to say that the symptom is merely the outward sign, and that we wrongly say we have cured hysteria when we merely cure the hysterical symptom. Yet a little later he states that he cures more than 90 per cent, of the cases within the first twenty-four hours. The old methods of reeducation,