If hysteria was the battlefield in which neurology and psychiatry became estranged, it can also provide the backdrop for their reconciliation. It remains the case that as many as one-third of the patients seen by clinical neurologists have symptoms that are better explained by neurosis than by neurological disease
+(2). Little attention is paid to these patients in textbooks of neurology or training programs. Although neuroscience is providing some understanding of these symptoms
+(3), they are illnesses with important psychological and social dimensions. The great psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, when shown the brain of a patient who had committed suicide at a postmortem examination, is reported to have challenged the pathologist to tell him by looking at the brain what was in his mind when he died. Important aspects of neurosis are likely to remain out of the reach of the scanner.