Neurology

“Perhaps the greatest effect . . . was not as a source of hypnotic experiments or explanations for traumatic neuroses but as a source of effective treatments. . . Those who found such [per Bernheim] suggestive therapeutics deceptive and perhaps unethical could turn to Dejerine or Dubois who advocated using moral appeals and reasoning to persuade patients to get better. And, of course, there was Freud and his ‘psycho-analysis.’ After Janet’s visit in 1906 and Freud’s in 1909, competition between the advocates of these various approaches intensified” (Brown, 9). The split among neurologists over psychotherapeutics in general and over psychoanalysis in particular widened during the second decade of the twentieth century.” Jelliffe’s Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases was so given to psa articles that in 1913, a group of “organic” neurologists rebuffed Jelliffe and founded the Archives of Psychiatry and Neurology, after which event “organically and psychologically oriented neurologists continued to grow further apart” (Brown, 10).