This is a case in which the principal symptom is epileptiform fits, indistinguishable from those of idiopathic epilepsy (i.e. without cerebral injury or toxic condition) though commencing in adult life.

By the technique of analysis unconscious sources of nerve tension are freed from repression. A drama of the most acute emotional intensity, with its origin in earliest childhood, is brought to consciousness. In the course of this process the fits also become conscious and subject to conscious control. In other words, they change their typical epileptic form, are replaced by typically hysteric fits and become, therefore, amenable to cure by psychotherapy.

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