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Contribution to the Psychology of So-called Dipsomania. dr.
otto juliusburger.
Concerning a Ceremonial before Going to Sleep. dr. wilhelm stekel.
Lecanomantic Investigations. herbert silberer.
Concerning Transitory Symptom Formations during the Analysis. dr. S. ferenczi.
1Psychology of So-called Dipsomania.—In qualifying the term, dipsomania, by the adjective “so-called,” the author wishes to indicate that he does not consider dipsomania a definite, sharp-cut clinical picture. He surveys briefly the prevailing views concerning the condition held by Kraepelin, Gaupp, Aschafifenburg, Ziehen, Wernicke and others and seems to agree most nearly with Wernicke who holds that a real periodicity is demonstrable in only a few cases, that the attempt to classify the condition with the periodic manias has been unsuccessful, that there is an interruption of the continuity of the consciousness of the personality; certain hypervalent ideas act on the personality so that a changed and lower grade character results.
Having thus sketched the conceptions of dipsomania, Juliusburger describes and discusses a case which came under his observation: The patient was a young married man who had the habit of going to a certain restaurant, always the same one, kept by an uncle of his wife,