Development of electroencephalography: Retrospect and outlook.

Abstract

This is an historical and evaluative discussion of electroencephalography (EE''G) together with a brief indication of the author''s 4 yr. research with patients at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago. The correlation between brain waves and personality was tested by predicting from psychoanalytic data the type of EEG a subject would have, and likewise by predicting from EEG records who were the clearly passive dependent and who the active independent individuals.