You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
(a) German Editions:
1890 In Die Gesundheit, ed. and , 1st ed., 1, 368-384. (Stuttgart, Berlin & Leipzig: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft.)(1900, 2nd ed.;1905, 3rd ed.)
1937 Z. Psychoan. Päd, 11, 133-147
(b) English Translation:
‘Psychical (or Mental) Treatment’
The present translation, by James Strachey, now appears for the first time and, so far as is known, is the first to be published.
Die Gesundheit was a collective work on medicine of a semi-popular character in two volumes with a large number of collaborators. In a letter to Pfister of June 17, 1910 (1963a) Freud says: ‘The book which I put in my children's hands is a popular medical work, Die Gesundheit, to which I myself contributed. It is quite dry and factual.’ Freud's contribution formed part of a section dealing with various methods of treatment. It was reprinted without alteration in the second and third editions of the work, occupying the same pages of the first volume as in the first edition.
It was invariably stated, until 1966, that the present paper dated from 1905 (it was given the distinguishing date 1905b in the Standard Edition): the 1905 edition of Die Gesundheit having been the only one to be examined. It is now known that this was in fact the third edition, though the editors of the work had failed to give an such indication. Cf. some further information and comment on this discovery in the Editor's Introduction to the group of Freud's papers on hypnotism and suggestion—to which the present paper properly belongs—in Standard Edition, 1, 63-4.