(SCIENTISTS) ADLER ALFRED Autograph Letter Signed Dr Adler t

Sale 2519 - Lot 63

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"SYMPTOMS SOMETIMES RECOGNIZABLE AS FORCED IDEAS OF GRANDEUR" (SCIENTISTS.) ADLER, ALFRED. Autograph Letter Signed, "Dr Adler," to "Esteemed Colleague," in German, conveying his diagnosis and treatment of the mental health of a young patient, remarking that the patient also suffers from physical ailments, inquiring about the Wassermann test, and requesting that the patient's parents be notified about his fee. 2 pages, 8vo, "Dr. Alfred Adler / Nervenarzt" stationery, written on a folded sheet; faint scattered foxing, few tiny holes at upper edge of each page (with minor loss to text), horizontal fold. Vienna, 17 November 1915

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". . . R. came to me with acute symptoms of depression, further strained by compulsive rumination and thoughts of suicide, as well as hypochondrial moods. This condition obscured a complex of symptoms sometimes recognizable as forced ideas of grandeur . . . . Consequently, it was never a matter of incipient cyclothymia . . . .
"Based on my impression of R. upon his departure, and on later communications from Dr. Stricker, I believe that his affliction is remedied . . . ."