On the East Coast at Harvard, he encountered the psychogenic views of Jungian Henry Murray.
"There is a psychogenic aspect to this," he said.
Steven Frucht said that, in the past, their effectiveness was often viewed as evidence that dystonias were psychogenic, but that nowadays it's viewed as the opposite, and also as a potential window on causation.
Though Asperger regarded it as a biological defect of affective contact innate, inborn, analogous to a physical or intellectual defect Kanner tended to view it as a psychogenic disorder, a reflection of bad parenting, and most especially of a chillingly remote, often professional "refrigerator mother".
Though Asperger regarded it as a biological defect of affective contact — innate, inborn, analogous to a physical or intellectual defect — Kanner tended to view it as a psychogenic disorder, a reflection of bad parenting, and most especially of a chillingly remote, often professional "refrigerator mother".
A clinically oriented perspective on psychogenic nonepileptic seizure-related emergencies.
An integrative neurocircuit perspective on psychogenic nonepileptic seizures and functional movement disorders: neural functional unawareness.
Many medical professionals viewed the Le Roy outbreak as a mass psychogenic illness that had arisen from social and emotional stresses.
A true mass hysteria event would result in no laboratory findings that could link it to an organic cause, and so would be viewed as originating from the mind, therefore psychogenic in origin.
Although Kanner later moved away from this position and acknowledged that autism was inborn, not psychogenic, the damage was done.
