Question

In the year 1800 in europe, bill was experiencing hysteria: he had become blind, but he had no physical reason to be so. his doctor diagnosed him with an imbalance in his magnetic fluid. how was bill most likely treated?

Answer 1

Hysteria, on time of Sigmund Freud (Victorian Era) was a term coined for what today is called 'anxiety'. The fear or apprehension on what may happen next. Bill became blind without proper reason, in today's case, this is called Conversion Disorder. To treat, Bill must treat the source of anxiety first thru series of therapies.

Answer 2

Conversion disorders, also called dissociative disorders, are a group of mental disorders that have in common the presence of symptoms and signs, mainly neurological, without there being a disease or objective physical cause that can explain them. of hysteria.

Freud theorized that the conversion disorder comes from an internal emotion of anger, disgust or unresolved conflict. I used hypnosis to treat this disorder. Then it was replaced by the "Apremio Method" (these two did not achieve the healing of the patient, only a discharge of the accumulated conflicts). Later he began to apply the Method of "free association" that solves the difficulties arising from this disorder by allowing the identification of the key reasons for emotional conflict in the person.