Freud's patient...........Anna O........had glove anesthesia...................pain in places she should not have had..................................I guess that is why the female cop in Alphabet Killer was shaking her hands................in fear purportedly in the film.........it is a scary flick......like vampire movies........killers..................but I am making this up............


A lot of people do not know that Freud was a medical doctor.........who became interested in psychology b/c of a case he saw.....

glove anesthesia

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glove anesthesia - a mental disorder involving loss of sensitivity in the hand and wrist; "since no combination of nerves serve this area a glove anesthesia is clearly psychogenic in origin" conversion disorder, conversion hysteria, conversion reaction - a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)