From the end of Freud’s “Psychotherapy of Hysteria” in Studies on Hysteria (1895), with Josef Breuer:
When I have promised my patients help or improvement by means of a cathartic treatment I have been faced by this objection: “Why, you tell me yourself that my illness is probably connected with my circumstances of my life. You cannot alter these in any way. How do you propose to help me then?” And I have been able to make this reply: “No doubt fate would find it easier than I to relieve you of your illness. But you will able to convince yourself that much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With mental life that has been restored to health you will be better armed against that unhappiness.”