Some studies in the psychopathology of acute dissociation of the personality

Title: Some studies in the psychopathology of acute dissociation of the personality
LC Subject: Dissociation Psychosexual disorders Child sexual abuse Hallucinations and illusions
Creator: Kempf, Edward J. (Edward John), 1885-1971
Description: Mrs. X married at a young age, she soon became unhappy with her husband. She begins to imagine her neighbor is in love with her. When her husband dies she appears to have a psychotic event, and is sent to a mental hospital. Here she is thought to suffer hallucinations of a sexual nature. Her rambling thoughts are interpreted as having either sexual or social motives. The patient has previously had a sexual relationship with her brother. She also variously saw her father, her pastor and the President as her lovers, none of which were likely true. Mrs. X was discharged after four months and focused her efforts on religion and raising her children. A male patient is also briefly discussed here, he is also said to suffer from a lack of an adequate outlet of the expression of sex motives.
Issued: 1915
Identifier: diss_kemp_somes_1915
Rights: No Copyright - United States
Source: University of Oregon Knight Library, BF1 .P5. Psychoanalytic Review, vol. 2, p.361-389.
Language: English
Type: Text
Format: application/pdf
Set: Dissociation and Trauma Archives
Primary Set: Dissociation and Trauma Archives
Institution: University of Oregon
Citation: Kempf, E.J. (1915). Some studies in the psychopathology of acute dissociation of the personality. Psychoanalytic Review, 2, 361-389.
Contained In Journal: Psychoanalytic Review