“…His ideas were strongly opposed by a congress of 35 electrotherapists and neuropsychiatrists led by Ludwig Edinger , Leopold Laquer, and Ernst Asche at Frankfurt in 1891, who argued that the efficacy of electrotherapy against a range of nervous or neuropathological conditions was a hard empirical fact supported by overwhelming evidence from numerous researchers, practitioners, and patients (Killen, 2006, pp. 48-80;Steinberg, 2011). The decline of physiological models of thought and the concept of mental energy, and somatic approaches to psychological problems and the rise of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, also contributed towards the decline of electrotherapy, as Sigmund Freud's rejection of electrotherapy as a treatment for neuroses during the 1890 s demonstrates (Gilman, 2008, pp.…”