During the winter of 1930, Princess Alice of Battenberg was admitted to Kurhaus Schloß Tegel, where she was diagnosed with schizophrenic paranoia. When Freud was consulted about her case by Ernst Simmel, the Sanatorium’s Director, he recommended that the patient’s ovaries be exposed to high-intensity X-rays. Freud’s suggestion was not based on any psychoanalytic treatment principles, but rooted in a rejuvenation technique to which Freud himself had subscribed. In recommending that psychotic patients should be treated with physical interventions, Freud confirmed his conviction that the clinical applicability of psychoanalysis should not be extrapolated beyond the neuroses, yet he also asserted that a proper consideration of endocrinological factors in the aetiology and treatment of the psychoses should never be excluded.

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爱丽丝公主的疯狂：西格蒙德·弗洛伊德、恩斯特·齐美尔和巴滕贝格的爱丽丝在库豪斯施洛斯泰格尔

1930 年冬天，巴滕贝格的爱丽丝公主住进了库豪斯施洛斯泰格尔，在那里她被诊断出患有精神分裂症偏执狂。当疗养院院长恩斯特·齐美尔 (Ernst Simmel) 就她的病例向弗洛伊德咨询时，他建议对患者的卵巢进行高强度 X 射线照射。弗洛伊德的建议并非基于任何精神分析治疗原则，而是植根于弗洛伊德本人所认同的回春术。弗洛伊德在建议对精神病患者进行物理干预时，证实了他的信念，即精神分析的临床适用性不应外推到神经症之外，但他也断言，在精神病的病因和治疗中应适当考虑内分泌因素永远不会被排除在外。