Pavlov I.P. A test of the physiological understanding of the symptomology of hysteria. P-in Academy of Sciences. Leningrad. 1932 "36 pages

Abstract

A small brochure by Academician I.P. Pavlov about hysteria is of great interest and great scientific value. Here, for the first time, we are personally convinced of the strength of the conditioned reflex method, and we feel that much more can be expected from this method in the future. The main interest of the conditioned reflex method lies in the fact that at first this method was used to study the higher nervous activity of animals, then it was transferred by Pavlov's students (Krasnogorsky, Ivanov-Smolensky, Lenz, etc.) to humans "and the method of conditioned reflexes, how about this evidenced by Pavlov's pamphlet on hysteria, turned out to be especially valid in the study of a mentally ill person. In fact, there is nothing surprising in this, and this could be expected a priori. A mentally ill person very often in some manifestations of his neuropsychic life is closer to animals than even young children, and in this case, in an understandable way, the method of conditioned reflexes most likely finds a way to understand some aspects of the neuropsychic life of a mentally ill person ...