D. К. Paul Steffens: lieber Hystero-Epilepsie (Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, 1905, 39 Bd, 3 H.)

His view of the being and the course of hysterical-epilepsy, the author sets out in the next. thesis:

"Hystero-epilepsy is psycho-neurosis (Binswanger) and belongs to the group of diseases based on" degeneration "(" Entartung ") in a broad sense. “Hysterical epilepsy” differs from “pure psychoses” in that the disorders it causes “relate not only to the normal expiration of mental antecedents, but mainly to their connection with purely physical innervation antecedents”, so that it represents “painful phenomena” which is based on the disruption of the normal relationship between the antecedents of our consciousness and our corporeality. "