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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

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A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

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Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

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When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

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Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Psychologist

Born: May 3rd, 1877

Died: December 25th, 1925

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