The psychoneuroses and their treatment by psychotherapy / by Professor J. Dejerine and Dr. E. Gauckler, authorized translation by Smith Ely Jelliffe.

  • Dejerine, J. (Jules), 1849-1917.
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[1913], [©1913]
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Credit: The psychoneuroses and their treatment by psychotherapy / by Professor J. Dejerine and Dr. E. Gauckler, authorized translation by Smith Ely Jelliffe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Dubois, however, was incomplete. He did not lay sufficient emphasis upon the instinctive, or, more widely speaking, the emotional side of the human machine, in its psychical situations. It is for this reason that I have, with the aid of my wife, translated the present volume, which is the product of Professor Dejerine of Paris, and one of his former assistants, Dr. Gauckler. Herein is found that emphasis lacking in the work of Dubois. Herein Dejerine and Gauckler uncover the emotional factors which are present in all of the group of disorders under discussion. This work provides us, in the best manner at present available, the other side of the human being, which had, I feel, been somewhat neglected by former authors. The reading of this book will show iow many patients may be treated and cured without the more detailed analyses elaborated to meet more complex situations. Just as in the domain of internal medicine a compound cathartic pill will relieve the vast majority of constipations, requiring only in a smaller percentage of cases a more intricate and time-consuming gastro- intestinal therapy, so in the domain of the psychoneuroses a prompt handling of an emotional situation, or a sound dialectic may secure for a large number of patients the relief necessary to effect an adjust- ment, while for a lesser number, although their number is by no means small, only a Freudian analysis will effect a cure. With these few words we leave the work to the judgment of the individual reader. The hope, that it will prove of some service to all, patients as well as their physicians, has been the stimulus and purpose which has led to its translation. Smith Ely Jellifpe. April, 1913.