Knowledge is not a fixed thing but a stage in human development, with a past and a future.

… only later was I to concentrate on the more practical subjects of prognosis and therapy, and the latter only at a late stage, since the proposal of a new disease form calls for abandoning old forms of treatment and performing multidimensional and precise experimental research to devise the correct therapy.

In respect to the details of treatment, I must emphasize that there is no specific drug, and that as in other mental diseases, the preliminary experiences are on the whole rather negative.

In some cases which were cured, the use of iron and quinine, combined with a diet and with a regulation of daily routine of the patient (when necessary implemented against his will) appear to have contributed greatly to the favorable outcome.

… it is self-evident that the drugs and methods which are based on opposite viewpoints – debilitating treatments – which were formerly widely accepted and extensively applied in all psychoses, are absolutely contraindicated in catatonia.