Five stories of the disease

You can do anything with your patients. Only ... do not try to cure them.
(Z. Freud)
The book contains descriptions of the five most famous patients of the father of psychoanalysis. The presentation of Z. Freud of the dramatic circumstances of life and the course of treatment of patients is a vivid illustration of how the psychoanalysis method is able to help. The case of Dora describes the clinical picture of hysteria, the case of little Hans shows how phobias and neurosis, the so -called "case of man -lugs", develops and how to treat, is a vivid example of obsessive neurosis, the story of Schreber illustrates the picture of classical schizophrenia, and Z. Freud in In this case, it derives its own concept of the origin of this disease, the story of the "man-wolf" tells how psychoanalysis is able to cope with psychoses and borderline personality disorders