Myerson Abraham.ABAA
drop-title Clinic of Dr. Abraham Myerson. Boston State Hospital. Traumatic neuroses.
193839333Boston: Medical Clinics of North America 1938. 8vo 22.9 cm 9". 647662 pp. <br><br>As the paper states "The World War the development of industrial accident boards the increasing range of pension bureaus of all types as well as the huge increase in accidents which parallels the intrusion of the automobile on the highways have brought with them an immense literature in all languages on the traumatic neuroses" p. 660. This specific work looks at how law and medicine approach neuroses what may cause traumatic neuroses and how it may be classified and treated. However Myerson states that "the history of the neuroses is the history of 'cures'" proving that at the time and arguably in the present as well the treatment of neuroses had yet to be mastered. Myerson discusses various types of neuroses including what we now call "post traumatic stress disorder" and distinguished it from a malingering which has a very long discussion.<br>Â Â Â Â Abraham Myerson 18811948 was a neurologist psychiatrist and researcher. His opposition to eugenics in the early 20th century was an uncommon opinion; he argued that mental issues were developed because of social environment more often than they were inherited.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: On the front wrapper a stamp that reads "#104 Dr. Hodskins." On the rear wrapper is a stamp from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases Division of Statistic and Research dated July 27 1938.<br>Â Â Â Â Extracted from Medical Clinics of North America May 1938. In stapled paper wrappers; minor dirtying and scuffs. Provenance marks as above interior is clean. Medical Clinics of North America hardcover books
