title: [Choice of symptoms in neuroses. Hysterical and obsessive-phobic neuroses].
abstract: This publication is a first attempt to verify our hypothesis that symptom choice in the classical neuroses depends on a disequilibrium between assimilation and accommodation, in the Piagetian sense, of reflective thinking. Results of tests derived from classical paradoxes of Western thought, from genetic psychology and from a neuropsychological test of the habituation of the alpha-blocking response support the following hypothesis; the reflective thinking of hysterical patients appears dominated by a primacy of assimilation and that of obsessional patients by a primacy of accommodation.
mesh_terms: D000513:Alpha Rhythm; D005824:Genetics, Behavioral; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008433:Mathematics; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011581:Psychological Tests
vernacular_title: Choix des symptomes dans les névroses. Névross hystériques et phobico-obsessionnelles.