Neurologist Sigmund Freud, his interest in hysteria…

Neurologist Sigmund Freud, his interest in hysteria stimulated by Joseph Breuer’s successful use of therapeutic hypnosis and by Freud’s studies with celebrated French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot in Paris, takes up Breuer’s “cathartic method".

In 1895, Freud and Breuer publish their findings in Studies in Hysteria , which outlines their “talking cure” and inaugurates psychoanalysis.

Freud describes the evolution of his clinical method and sets out his theory of the psychogenetic origins of hysteria, demonstrated in several case histories,