Sunday, July 09, 2006

Psychiatry Notes - continued FREUD 1886 to 1896

1886 - At Vienna, has a hostile reception on his lecture on hysteria as well as his report on what he had seen in Charcot.. Starts private practice

Marries Martha Bernays , also of jewish descent, in September. Publishes the translation of Charcot's book Lectures on Disorders of the Nervous System.

1887 - Without giving up electrotherapy, starts using hypnosis. Mathilda's birth (October). Meets Wilhelm Fliess in November. This moment is the start of a great friendship and a mail exchange of utmost importance for the birth of psychoanalysis. December: his first letter to Fliess.

1888 - Publishes the translation of Bernheim's book On Suggestion and its Therapeutical Uses. In May, he first applies a method inspired by Breuer (on Frau Emmy von N.).

1889 - The birth of Jean-Martin, baptized in Charcot's honor (December).

1891 - Publishes a paper on aphasia, criticizing the theory of localization. The birth of Olivier (Oliver, in Cromwell's memory).

1892 - Article on hypnotic therapy. Collaboration with Breuer. A patient of his (Elisabeth von R.) suggests the method of free associations. Publishes the translation of the second Bernheim volume. The birth of Ernst, christened in Brucke's honor.

1893 -. An article on hysteria paralyses (in French, Revue de neurologie). Formulation of the traumatizing seduction theory (to be abandoned in 4 years). Birth of Sophy.

1895 - Publishes Obsession and Phobias. Together with Joseph Breuer publishes Studies on Hysteria in May. The work maintains the sexual etiology of neurosis. The birth of Anna (December).

1896 - Raises a scandal in his audience with a lecture on the sexual etiology of Hysteria. Freud for the first time uses the term "psychoanalysis". The death of Jacob Freud (October).

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