Word: meynert
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...merchant, while Schnitzler's was a fashionable ear, nose and throat specialist, who basked in limelight reflected from theatrical patients. Both young men became physicians and took up neurology; both went to Nancy to study hypnosis under French psychiatrists; both worked in the Vienna clinic of Neurologist Theodor Meynert. Largely because of their experience there, both abandoned the conventional practice of medicine. (Wrote Schnitzler: "Meynert tried to convince patients with delusions that they could not possibly have them.") There the parallel in their lives ended-at least on the surface...
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