The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, vol 10

Clinical Director and Pathologist, Taunton State Hospital Taunton State Hospital Papers, 1914-5
THE progress in our understanding of hysteria has come largely through the elaboration of the so-called mechanisms by which the symptoms arise. These mechanisms have been declared to reside or to have their origin in the subconsciousness or coconsciousness. The mechanisms range all the way from the conception of Janet that the personality is disintegrated owing to lowering of the psychical tension...