TY  - JOUR
T1  - "The treatment of hysteria"
AU  - Mayer EE
Y1  - 1919/01/18
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610030060029
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 214
EP  - 214
VL  - 72
IS  - 3
N2  - 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,
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610030060029
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610030060029
ER  -