Praxis für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie Robert Brey

08/04/2026

08/12/2024

„The claim that hysteria ceased to exist can hardly be taken seriously for a simple reason. For both Charcot and Freud, the symptoms of hysteria were fabulously changeable. An anaesthesia could transform into a contracture, a paralysis into a neuralgia. What mattered was less the content of the symptom than what place it occupied for the sufferer and what it gave voice to. As anthropologists would soon demonstrate, culture contained ’symptom pools’ which could be borrowed from in order to articulate a discontent. Deprived of any other means to communicate their malaise or their pain, the subject would use the symptoms available in a culture as ’idioms of distress’.

Darian Leader

15/09/2024

Stille Praxis.

30/06/2024

18/05/2024

Mittagspause in der Praxis.