| But his treatment was progressive, stressing what he called autognosis or self-understanding through conversation, hypnosis and psychoanalysis. |
| Autognosis covers a spectrum of responses to colleagues, patients, other mental health professionals of various disciplines, as well as responses to the bureaucracy. |
| The ostensible aim of autognosis was emotional abreaction rather than a thorough breakdown of the content of memory. |
| Autognosis is not really different from the process which is commonly recognised as being responsible for the curative efficiency of psychoanalytic treatment. |
| A second interpretation thus asserts itself, where the possibility of such an autognosis only insists upon the need for self-examination and self-questioning. |
