This essay is among a series of articulate documentation written by the highly esteemed Dr. Bernard Bail, written from the work he has performed with his patients.
This essay serves as a brief word on a Freudian disorder by Dr. Bail.
This will be a brief comment of this well known entity. I am sure all analysts and students in the analytic field know that Freud wrote about this disorder in his famous essay, The Rat Man.
Since then, there have been many articles giving us their experience of working with such people. I have come to the conclusion apropos patients who complain they are plagued by leaving their house and not being sure they have turned their stove off, or locked their door, or left the garage door open. The problem is that they do not use the intellect and the emotions at the same time. If, as I believe to be the case, the intellectual aspect of the personality is alone involved in their action. This being the case, it tells us it is not sufficient to give the sense of security to the person. Both agencies, the intellectual and the emotional, have to be engaged to give us the security that we have done what we have done.
Copyright © Bernard W. Bail, M.D.
April 2020
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