ABSTRACT
In consequence of the wearisome and slow progress of its method of cure psycho-analytic technique entails the blurring of the general impression of a case, and the individual factors of its complicated connections force themselves on the attention only intermittently. This chapter communicates a case whose cure was very rapid and whose clinical picture, both in form and content very varied and interesting, unfolded itself dramatically, almost without interruption, like a series of cinematograph pictures. The case deals with a mixture of purely hypochondriacal and hysterical symptoms, and at the beginning of the analysis the clinical picture of the illness merged into schizophrenia, while towards the end it showed indications, however slight, of paranoia. Pure hypochondria is incurable; only where transference neurotic components are present, can one attempt psycho-therapeutic influence with any hope of success.
