Figure 1 describes the basic physiology of TMS.

Then, out of the blue, he found himself saying something like, “I don’t want that job of mine. It’s too hard, and there’s too much responsibility. I want a job where somebody will tell me what to do.” And, he told me, as this revelation flashed through his mind, the severe leg pain simply…disappeared! Over the next few days he continued to have som

“We must rather attribute [to] the repressed [ideas] a strong upward drive, an impulsion to break through into consciousness.”

I have concluded that since everyone experiences psychosomatic symptoms, the mind-split is a universal human trait, not something associated only with the neuroses. Or to put it another way, we are all “neurotic.” Therefore, neurotic is normal.

an emotion could lead to a physical response, for example, a man who has a violent unconscious angry reaction to something during a meal and begins to vomit. Thereafter, eating called up the unconscious “memory”

psychic phenomena result in excitation, a term found throughout his writing, implying a kind of energy that produces symptoms of one kind or another

an unconscious idea, though not sufficiently intense to become conscious, could be strong enough to induce motor paralysis.

the concept that we humans have two minds is very important to an understanding of TMS. It is clear that we are two different people—one of them conscious and the other unconscious. How did Breuer and Freud see the split mind? In Studies on Hysteria the unconscious is described as a shadowy place inhabited by ideas that were not strong enough to be

In both cases, the patient will soon develop new symptoms.