Ebook The Psychology of Dementia Praecox

Miss Lucy R., thirty years old, had been treated by a specialist for purulent rhinitis. Some time after she again applied for treatment; this time, however, she suffered from complete anos mia and was almost constantly annoyed by two subjective sensa tions of smell. She was also depressed and anergic, complained of a heavy head, loss of appetite and inability to work. As no local affection could then be found to account for these symptoms She was recommended to Freud.