Most of the so-called bladder disturbances of this period are of a sexual nature; whenever the enuresis nocturna does not represent an epileptic attack it corresponds to a pollution.
It is the invariable experience that the enuresis then promptly stops.
Indeed, such evidence as we have goes to show that, as in some other neuroses, the urine in enuresis is unduly copious, and of very low specific gravity.
Often enuresis is evidence that the child's home environment has been at fault, and that his mental and moral development has been retarded.
The treatment of enuresis to be successful must be conducted through and by means of the grown-up persons who have the control of the children.
Thus a boy, an only child, who had suffered from enuresis till his seventh year, had regained complete control till his eleventh year, when he went to school.
It is said that enuresis may be due to a deficiency of the thyroid secretion, and that it can be cured by thyroid extract.
There are certain points in the behaviour of a child with enuresiswhich seem to point to this conclusion.
Removal of tonsils and adenoid vegetations might conceivably cure an enuresis which is nocturnal, it cannot account for an incontinence which spreads to the day.
The enuresis at once reappeared and continued unchecked so long as he was at school.
Girls are apt to be found affected with polypoid excrescences at the meatus, which when removed will cause the enuresis to disappear.
He defines enuresis to be the passage of urine of a normal quality in a child who, with the exception of this involuntary urination, is healthy.
It is rare to meet with troubles of micturition, nocturnal enuresis scarcely deserving mention owing to its frequency among all young degenerates and to its being so commonly the outcome of neglect.
The enuresis stopped, and I therefore informed the young lady later that, instead of Wednesday, I would not see her again for hypnosis till the following Saturday.
Enuresis must be regarded as an infantile sex-surrogate; in the dream-life of adults too it is easily used as a cloak for the urge of sexual desire.
Perhaps I ought to have sought out the psychoanalytic connexion between the enuresis and her psychosexual attitude and explained it to her, etc.
I remembered my wise old woman, and asked: "When did the enuresis return?
After the holidays my locum tenens told me the young lady had been there with the news that the enuresis had vanished, but her disappointment at not seeing me was very keen.
The young daughter had suffered since early girlhood from enuresis nocturna, which, among other difficulties, hindered her from going to a boarding-school abroad.
What enuresis signifies in this case is, from the Freudian standpoint, not difficult to understand.
We must drop it for quite three weeks, to give the enuresis a chance to stop.
Suddenly, about March or April, 1915, the nocturnal enuresis began to be frequent again, occurring twice or three times a week; but the patient hid this misfortune as far as possible from his comrades.
He was also bothered by nocturnal enuresis which might become an incurable disease and bring impairment of memory and attention.
I mention convulsive attacks and enuresis nocturna, as pathological affections of her childhood which belong to my theme.
In the later repression the pleasure in the enuresis as well as in the being taken up by the mother becomes a dysuria psychica.
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