Reich, W. (1927). An Hysterical Psychosis in Statu Nascendi. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 8:159-173.

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(1927). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 8:159-173

An Hysterical Psychosis in Statu Nascendi

Wilhelm Reich Author Information

It is a very rare thing for a psycho-analyst who is not actually working in a mental hospital to have the chance of observing hysterical psychoses, especially hysterical dissociations. And psycho-analytical literature contains no special study on this subject, except for the cases dealt with by Breuer and Freud (Studien ueber Hysterie) in particular those of Anna O. and Emmy v. N—, and a few brief remarks in other analytic works. It therefore needs no apology if I bring forward a case of this kind. The few theoretical remarks which I shall make in connection with my account of the analysis are intended to throw open to discussion certain problems of a theoretic and technical nature to which the material gave rise.

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The patient was a young woman aged nineteen, a hysteric. She had begun an analysis with a member of the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society in April, 1923, and had continued it with me three months later. The whole analysis lasted six and a half months,

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