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(1922). Psychoanalytic Review, 9:67-73

A Case of Anxiety Neurosis with Obsessions

I. B. Diamond, M.D.

The application of the psychoanalytic method in the successful treatment of a case of anxiety neurosis which failed to respond to the usual methods is well demonstrated in the following:

The patient in question was a young lady whom I was called in to see several years ago. She was in bed and appeared to be greatly alarmed and worried concerning her heart. She stated she was subject to attacks of palpitation and dizziness with a peculiar “sinking feeling as if about to die.” These attacks were always associated with great fear which at intervals kept her from work for periods of weeks.

She was twenty-two years old, single, American, had had a high-school education, and in intelligence was above the average. She had been employed as a stenographer by one firm for four years. The physical findings were almost nil, with the exception of the somewhat increased reflexes, hippus of the pupils, and some vasomotor disturbances. Her heart, upon examination, was found normal. I was

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