ABSTRACT
The psychogenesis of true neuroses does not imply, as is so often held, that the neurosis in question is determined by a psychological trauma or through a psychological conflict. These are in fact rarely the ultimate and actual cause of the illness under consideration. That a mental trauma, that is, a sufficiently difficult experience, has an injurious, a permanently damaging effect on a person, depends in each case on that person, on the complete character structure, and not on the actual experience that the person had to undergo.
