(P/B) THE STANDARD EDITION OF THE COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF SIGMUND FREUD (VOLUME 10) 1909

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In the following pages I propose to describe the course of the illness and recovery of a very youthful patient. The case history is not, strictly speaking, derived from my own observation. It is true that I laid down the general lines of the treatment, and that on one single occasion, when I had a conversation with the boy, I took a direct share in it; but the treatment itself was carried out by the child's father, and it is to him that I owe my sincerest thanks for allowing me to publish his notes upon the case. But his services go further than this. No one else, in my opinion, could possibly have prevailed on the child to make any such avowals; the special knowledge by means of which he was able to interpret the remarks made by his five-year-old son was indispensable, and without it the technical difficulties in the way of conducting a psycho-analysis upon so young a child would have been insuperable. It was only because the authority of a father and of a physician were united in a single person, and because in him both affectionate care and scientific interest were combined, that it was possible in this one instance to apply the method to a use to which it would not otherwise have lent itself. [...] (From the publisher)

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VOLUME TEN
ANALYSIS OF A PHOBIA IN A FIVE-YEAR-OLD BOY (1909)
Editor's Note
I. Introduction
II. Case History and Analysis
III. Discussion
Postscript (1922)
NOTES UPON A CASE OF OBSESSIONAL NEUROSIS (1909)
Editor's Note
Introduction
I. Extracts from the Case History
(A) The Beginning of the Treatment
(B) Infantile Sexuality
(c) The Great Obsessive Fear
(D) Initiation into the Nature of the Treatment
(E) Some Obsessional Ideas and their Explanation
(F) The Precipitating Cause of the Illness
(G) The Father Complex and the Solution of the Rat Idea
II. Theoretical
(A) Some General Characteristics of Obsessional Structures
(B) Some Psychological Peculiarities of Obsessional Neurotics: their Attitude towards Reality, Superstition and Death
(C) The Instinctual Life of Obsessional Neurotics, and the Origins of Compulsion and Doubt
Addendum: Original Record of the Case
APPENDIX: Some Writings by Freud Dealing with Anxiety and Phobias in Children and with Obsessional Neurosis
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND AUTHOR INDEX
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
GENERAL INDEX