The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.