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Italian Psychoanalytical Society
Rome (26) Via dei Gracchi, 328-A
The President
Rome, April 12, 1932.
Dear Professor,
An excellent psychoanalyst in Geneva is Dr. Henri Flournoy, 6 rue de Monnetier, Genévè. If he should be too busy, I would recommend Dr. R. de Saussure, 2 Tertasse, Génève.
From what you have told me of the patient, I suspect that the problem is not a simple neurosis, but rather a schizophrenia. However, I have not sufficient data to be certain of this.
Agoraphobia is a special form of that phobia of going out alone into the street which the Germans call “Strassenangst”. I have discussed the subject in my article “Il simbolismo psicoanalitico” (Archivio Generale by Levi Bianchini, Vol. VII, N.2, 1925), and in the paper I delivered at the 1925 Psychiatry Congress, entitled “Psichiatria e Psicoanalisi”, which appeared