Abstract
This paper is the synopsis of the author's lecture manuscript. The author emphasized that the treatment of neurosis should rightly be done not only by psychiatrists but also by every physician of any other sort, because it may often be successful by some brief suggestion or persuation made to the patient.
To diagnose the case as neurosis, we must recognize the non-existence of somatic genesis. But it is not satisfactory to find no organic change in the patient; it is neccesary positively to discover some psychogenic genesis in him. Neurosis is caused by the patient's character and environment, but its special feature consists in the existence of the patient's consciousness of disease.
Similar types of this disease are, anxiety neurosis, hypochondriasis, compulsive neurosis, hysteria and others.
We can not draw a clear distinction between psychosomatic disease and neurosis, because in the former it is difficult to discover any organic change in the patient from the technical standpoint.
This sort of disease, in the otorhinolaryngological region, may cause Mènéièr's disease, deafness, tinnitus, vertigo, allergic rhinitis, nose obstruction, laryngeal neurosis, allergy of the larynx, dyspnea, neurosis of the esophagus, spasm of the esophagus, etc.
The treatment of neurosis, except such complicated cases as to need a special psychiatric treatment, is generally successful by the simultaneous administration of some minor tranquilizer for example Chlordiazepoxide or Diazepam, and of the physician's brief suggestion, persuation and other mental treatments. Not rarely our kindness to the patient brings fair results.
