FROM HYSTERIA TO NERVOUSNESS - SOME REMAR KS ON HELLPACH,WILLY SOCIO-PATHOLOGICAL PROGNOSES FOR THE 20TH-CENTURY

The very rich, extensive, and complex work of the psychologist, doctor of medicine, and politician Willy Hellpach (1877-1955) is largely for gotten today. Our article sheds light upon his contribution to the nos ology of neuroses, which emphasizes the impart of history, society, an d culture on the neurotic syndromes, Hellpach states that during the p rocess of civilisation hysteria is more and more replaced by nervousne ss. In contemporary nosology this hypothesis leads to the discussion h ow the relationship of neuroses with depressive symptomatology on the one hand and neuroses with panic attacks and phobia on the other shoul d be conceptualised.