Early psychoanalysis applied only to physical symptoms

Anna O.—Severe cough, paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body, and disturbances of vision, hearing, and speech, as well as hallucination and loss of consciousness. [Temporal lobe epilepsy]

Frau Emmy von N.—Convulsive movements of her face and neck and the compulsion to shout out and make clicking sounds; speech difficulties, which Freud physicalized as “spastic interruptions amounting to a stammer.” [Tourette’s syndrome]

Lucy R—Hallucinations centring on the smell of burnt pudding. [Olfactory hallucinations are frequently found in temporal lobe epilepsy]