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Hoffer discusses diagnostic problems in cases with either organic or psychogenic disorders and therapeutic problems in cases with both organic and psychogenic disorders. For the treatment of psychoses he recommends, following a suggestion of Federn, 'inhibiting the becoming conscious of the unconscious so far as possible; in so far as it has become conscious in a delusional form teaching the patient to understand and master it'.