Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV DISORDERS OF URINATION AND OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION As regards technique, rationale, and progress in the application of psychotherapy to this class of disorder, the cases cited may well speak for themselves, after what has been written in other connections. A man suffering from incontinence at one time, and inability to pass water at another, was cured in one sitting by induction. Other physicians, adopting various kinds of treatment by " suggestion," have obtained good results in similar cases. This is one of the easiest of all classes of functional disorder to deal with. A youth, twenty years of age, was sent to me suffering from a dribbling away of urine, continuing all day and all night, which followed a feverish influenza contracted some months previously. In this case I should imagine that acid urine had first caused pain, and that this had created fear or worry, which served to perpetuate the trouble by the formation of "negative circling"—especially as his parents had scolded and punished him. The urine was running at the time he consulted me, and the patient had to stand on a piece of oilcloth. He was asked to lie down on a couch upon some waterproof sheeting. Ten minutes' rest following one minute's induction was sufficient to stop the flow before he rose. He had no further trouble. Every kind of medicine, and various other means, had previously been tried in this case by his medical advisers, including chloroform and the administration of large doses of narcotics. A boy of thirteen was sent to me with a history of nocturnal enuresis of some years' duration; this had at length become diurnal as well. He was thin, pale, and looked greatly worried. Water was dribbling at the time. When he arrived I was dressed in my overcoat and about to cat...