Georg Groddeck (October 13, 1866 Bad Kösen – June 10, 1934 Knonau, near Zurich) was a physician and writer.
"Who draws the conclusion, that I mentally medicate a human who has broken his leg, is very true – but I adjust the fracture and dress the wound. And then – I give him a massage, make exercises with him, give a daily bath to the leg, with water of 45 centigrade for half an hour and I take care, that he does neither gorge nor booze, and every now and then I ask him: Why did you break your leg, you yourself ?" although the bold doctrine of salvation, where he mauled his patients necessarily quite authoritarian, is judged today more reserved. "To provide obedience" is the "foundation of medical art", he mentioned.

Association with Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis