Freud searched in 18 of his patients which he concluded to have hysteria for the underlying causes of their hysteria. His study was based on two tenets: first, that the symptom of the hysteria must fit the underlying cause. Second, there must be an event of significant traumatic force to cause hysteria. He particularly stressed quantity of events besides these first qualitative factors. He concluded that sexual experience during infancy or childhood was the sole cause of hysteria.
I am also a psychotherapist. Can we please go back to being manly now. |