INSIGHT AS AN AIM IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Authors: Hervey Cleckley
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1941)

Article1 May 1941INSIGHT AS AN AIM IN PSYCHOTHERAPYHERVEY CLECKLEY, M.D.HERVEY CLECKLEY, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-14-11-2115 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAn old friend of the writer's who recently visited one of the most celebrated medical clinics in the world, recounts with creditable humor the following incident which occurred during the prolonged and elaborate examination to which he was submitted. The patient, pressed by responsibilities of a busy life, had neglected outdoor games and other exercises for many years and at the time of his admission to the clinic weighed 40 or 50 pounds more than a generous allowance for his height and bony framework would grant as reasonable.After painstaking and prolonged roentgenologic, serologic, metabolic and directly physical procedures, this...References1. SCHILDER P: Psychotherapy, 1938, W. W. Norton Co., New York, pp. 25-48. Google Scholar2. MEYER A: Objective psychology or psychobiology with subordination of the medically useless contrast of mental and physical, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1915, lxv, 860-863. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. DIETHELM O: Treatment in psychiatry, 1936, Macmillan Co., pp. 1-19, New York. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. TERMAN LM: The measurement of intelligence, 1916, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, pp. 268-272. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. FREUD S: New introductory lectures on psychoanalysis, 1933, W. W. Norton Co., New York. Google Scholar6. FENICHEL O: Clinical psychoanalysis, 1934, W. W. Norton Co., New York. Google Scholar7. DIETHELM O: Investigations with distributive analysis and synthesis, Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat., 1936, xxxv, 467-486. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. ADLER A: The practice and theory of individual psychology, 1927, Harcourt Brace and Co., New York. Google Scholar9. HART B: The psychology of insanity, 1939, Macmillan Co., New York. Google Scholar10. FREUD S: The psychopathology of everyday life, 1924, Macmillan Co., New York. Google Scholar11. CLUTTON-BROCK A: Evil and the new psychology, The Atlantic Monthly, March 1923, pp. 298-308. Google Scholar12. BULLIET CJ: Apples and madonnas, 1930, 3d Ed., Corvici Friede, N. Y. Google Scholar13. WOLFE B: Calm your nerves, 1933, Farrar and Rinehart, N. Y. Google Scholar14. MENNINGER K: Man against himself, 1938, Harcourt Brace and Co., New York, pp. 87-143 and 248-285. Google Scholar15. KRAFT-EBING R: Psychopathia sexualis, 1924, Physicians and Surgeons Book Co., N. Y., pp. 131-213. Google Scholar16. v. SACHER-MASOCH L: Venus in furs. Privately printed in New York, 1928. Google Scholar17. SHERRINGTON CS: The brain and its mechanism, 1934, Cambridge University Press, p. 24. Google Scholar18. WRIGHT S: Applied physiology, 1937, Oxford University Press, pp. 562-563. Google Scholar19. HOMANS J: A textbook of surgery, 1936, Charles C. Thomas, Baltimore, pp. 928-929. Google Scholar20. WANGENSTEEN OH: The therapeutic problem in bowel obstructions, 1937, Charles C. Thomas Co., Baltimore, Md., p. 7. Google Scholar21. HOUSTON WR: The doctor himself as a therapeutic agent, ANN. INT. MED., 1938, xvi, 1416-1425. Google Scholar22. STRECKEREBAUGH EAFG: Practical clinical psychiatry, 1935, P. Blakiston's Son and Co., Philadelphia, Pa., pp. 488-489. Google Scholar23. CAMPBELL JD: Psychiatry in general practice: an orientation, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1939, cxii, 2577-2581. CrossrefGoogle Scholar24. BURLINGAME CC: Hard facts about psychiatry, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1939, cxiii, 377-380. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Augusta, Georgia*Received for publication September 25, 1939.From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Georgia School of Medicine and the University Hospital, Augusta, Ga. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 May 1941Volume 14, Issue 11Page: 2115-2124KeywordsExerciseGamesHospital medicine ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 May 1941 PDF downloadLoading ...