In the psychogenic kind the ego would be incited to rebellion by ill-treatment on the part of its ideal--an ill-treatment which it encounters when there has been identification with a rejected object.
A psychogenicmelancholia of this sort can end in mania, and this cycle can be repeated several times, just as easily as in a case which appears to be spontaneous.
Nevertheless I see no difficulty in assigning to the factor of the periodical rebellion of the ego against the ego ideal a share in both kinds of melancholia, the psychogenic as well as the spontaneous.
If stupor be a psychobiological reaction, it should occur, occasionally, in organic conditions just as the deliria of typhoid fever may contain many psychogenic elements.
The prominence of pain might be taken as a likely cause for an instinctive reaction of withdrawal, which would account for the emotional palsy of these conditions on psychogenic grounds.
Further observations are necessary to confirm or disprove this hypothesis, but we feel inclined to accept it tentatively because it is plausible and consistent with the view that stupor is essentially a psychogenic type of reaction.
His final conclusion is fourfold: (1) Epilepsy, more often than we have hitherto thought, is ofpsychogenic origin.
The interpretation of our patient's attacks as hysterical becomes more certain by the demonstration of a probably psychogenic origin of the hallucination.
There are undoubted psychogenic mental diseases (the so-called hysterical) which are properly regarded as functional in contrast with organic diseases which rest upon demonstrable anatomical changes.
Viewed from the newly-gained standpoint, there resulted, first of all, a totally new theory of psychogenic disturbances.
It was hysterical laughter, therefore a psychogenic symptom, that is, something proceeding from unconscious motives and not from those of the conscious ego.
The way in which the unconscious works is most clearly seen in disturbances of a psychogenic nature, such as hysteria, compulsion neurosis, etc.
The detailed recital usually furnishes many valuable clues which make the psychogenic origin of the symptoms clear to the patient.
Re the apparently psychogenic factor in Hurst’s case (epilepsy coming on after assumption of too great responsibilities), compare remarks of Bonhoeffer under Case 57 concerning psychogenic factors.
According to Cassirer, this case is one largely of psychogenic origin, with possibly an organic cerebellar nucleus.
However, bearing in mind psychogenic obstacles of an unknown nature, P.
Consider in this connection also Case 28: an old syphilitic hemiplegia was followed by a probably psychogenic or hysterical hemiplegia on the same side.
Re Russel’s general point of view concerning malingerers and psychogenic cases, see under Case 458.
Re relapses, Wiltshire thinks their causes and frequency prove the psychogenic nature of Shell-shock.
In England, Russel found more cases of a clearly psychogenic nature; yet in these, also, there was always primarily an element of deception.
The picture of a complete traumatic neurosis not infrequently appears, aided perhaps by the psychic features of the gas attacks; and possibly some cases are entirely psychogenic from the beginning.
Although the auditory disorder is of mechanical origin, the speech disorder appears to be of psychogenic nature.
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