History of Psychoanalysis

Some principal schools of psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis had its predecessor in the work with hysterics conducted by neurologists Jean-Martin Charcot and Hippolyte Bernheim, who, using hypnosis, discovered that the origins of hysteria were mental rather than overtly physiological. Freud’s colleague, Josef Breuer, first began using his modified technique of hypnosis to treat the famous hysteric patient […]