![]() The woman herself named this process of storytelling “the talking cure.” Then one of Freud’s colleagues told him about a patient named Anna O., whose hysterical symptoms had improved when she told stories about her life. He learned the method of hypnosis himself and began to treat patients, but he had little success. Seeing that a patient could be talked out of his or her symptoms gave Freud the idea that the symptoms were a product of the mind and not the body. Freud learned that some doctors were using hypnosis to treat hysteria, and he went to France to observe the use of hypnosis firsthand. He became interested in psychology, especially in a mental illness called hysteria, which caused patients to suffer from tics, tremors, convulsions, paralysis, and hallucinations. Freud wrote several books, including The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905), and Civilization and Its Discontents (1930).įreud started his professional life as a medical doctor, but as a Jew, he knew his prospects in medicine were probably limited. He then moved to London, where he died of throat cancer in 1939. He’s usually associated with Vienna, where he lived from the age of four until the Germans occupied it in 1938. ![]() It’s the birthday of Sigmund Freud, born in Freiburg, Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic), in 1856. © Louisiana State University Press, 2016. ![]() “Red Never Lasts” by Anya Krugovoy Silver from from nothing. ![]()
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