1966 Volume 30 Issue 8 Pages 1037-1044
As discussed in Part I, the Cornell Medical Index is impertinent for a patient with actual neurosis who has the spirit of self-respect and is ashamed of exposing himself, bodily or mental, to others. However, in dealing with neuroses, what we physicians must search for is that obstacle which interferes with normal emotional discharge and not the products of reactions of the organism to this obstacle. For this reason, new questionnaires which have no column for the name of patients and consist of concrete questions asking the environment in which they live were specially designed for actual neurosis.
