Should you confront your worries or try to banish them?
Psychotherapists have long believed it’s a bad idea to suppress worrisome thoughts, but new research is prompting a rethink. In 1900, Sigmund Freud treated a young woman called ‘Dora’ who had fainting spells, a lingering cough, and had lost her voice. After diagnosing her with hysteria, Freud learned about an incident between Dora and a family friend, Herr K. Dora was supposed to meet up with Herr K and his wife to watch a church festival, but when she arrived at his office, Herr K was there alone. He suddenly ‘clasped the girl to him and pressed a kiss upon her lips,’ Freud wrote in the case study ‘Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria’ (1905). ….[READ]
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