ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two types of war neuroses with some case examples. The exact anamneses of these cases and their relation to the individual symptoms permit their being recognized more correctly as ‘functional’, as psycho-neuroses. The possibility in these cases that, besides the trauma, any other ‘bodily predisposition’ acted as a disposing cause could only be excluded by a systematic psycho-analysis of each individual. The striking persistent symptom of war neuroses is the more or less marked hyperaesthesia of all the senses, photophobia, hyperacusis, and the dread of passive contact. The chapter shows that the clinical cases presented really do belong to two disease groups that psycho-analysis designates by the names of anxiety hysteria and conversion hysteria.
