Does neurology inform psychoanalysis? A case report.

In these days of malpractice suits it has become increasingly important that the psychoanalyst make correct diagnoses and institute appropriate treatment. The significance of this statement is enhanced by the fact that the opinion is being increasingly enunciated that there is no such disorder as conversion hysteria. Accordingly the psychoanalyst needs to keep up to date about relevant neurological matters. The present article reports a case of a young women who had been treated psychoanalytically for many years without the organic nature of her disorder being grasped. Appropriate pharmacological therapy produced prolonged remission of her symptoms.