Nervous Disorders in General Practice

It is a curious sidelight on modern civilization that so large a fraction of the community should exhibit these emotional difficulties ; for the symptoms of the functional nervous disorders are the physical expression of emotional conflicts, and these centre round the demands for love, protection and power.1 The first problem is to recognize the functional nervous disorder when it presents itself for diagnosis in the consulting-room. This can sometimes be extremely easy and sometimes extraordinarily difficult. In my experience, when the diagnosis is easy the treatment is often very difficult; on the other hand,