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An article dealing with the treatment of pathological anxiety as it
exists in the psychoneuroses. It is written from the point of view of guidance for the general practitioner.
It is said that the aim of the treatment is to make the patient aware of his difficulties, the methods of doing this ranging from explanation and kindly insistence up to the full technique of psycho-analysis. Stress is laid upon the necessity of the physician overcoming his own resistances, which it is said will intensify those of the patient owing to his detecting the same resistances at work in the physician's mind.
Contrary to the regular views in psycho-analysis it is stated to be a matter of opinion regarding the revival of lost memories as to how much the patient should be pressed with direct questions.