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The Neurotic Process As the Focus of Physiological and Psychoanalytic Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Lawrence S. Kubie
Lawrence S. Kubie*
Affiliation:
Yale University School of Medicine
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A series of studies published since 1951 attempted to clarify what is meant by the neurotic in human nature. In returning to this problem today, I must beg your indulgence for repeating myself at some points. Apart from the kindness of your chairman in inviting me to discuss the Neurotic Process as my contribution to this symposium, my further justification is the opportunity which it gives me to add a few considerations which may round out the hypothesis and make it more useful, and also to indicate that the neurotic process is the meeting place for the organic and psychological approaches to problems of human behaviour (4, 5, 7, 10).

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Anglo-American Symposium
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 104 , Issue 435 , April 1958 , pp. 518 - 536
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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