This present volume is addressed to treatment of the normal person or the neurotic patient not sufficiently violent to he institutional- ized.
This is because the research which has been done has shown that nearly two out of three neurotic patients recover over time, without any therapy at all.
A neurotic patient of mine thinks someone is going to be murdered?
Free association was developed by Sigmund Freud as an alternative to the hypnotic method for treating neurotic patients.
Nevertheless, in a group of neurotic patients, a placebo was effective even when they knew the pills they were taking were inert.
Then imagine one neurotic patient who presses his call button for attention.
Particularly, because his book provided methodology to make a brief analysis of neurotic patients in about 20 to 30 minutes.
"I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring release to my neurotic patients," Freud tells the interviewer.
Jung was of the opinion that Freud's greatest achievement probably 'consisted in taking neurotic patients seriously and entering into their peculiar individual psychology.
He remembered how countless neurotic patients had disappeared for ever from his consulting-rooms when the last war had broken out.