Oscar Zarate,Richard Appignanesi

Freud

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  • unelettredamourhas quoted5 years ago
    April 1886: Freud begins private practice as a neuropathologist and encounters his first hysterics
  • unelettredamourhas quoted5 years ago
    Charcot prevented Freud from asking psychological questions. Charcot’s view that hysteria was not connected to the female sexual organs was an advance, yes. But it stopped Freud from asking whether some mental disorders might have a sexual origin.
  • unelettredamourhas quoted5 years ago
    Hysteria can only develop where there is hereditary degeneration of the brain.
  • unelettredamourhas quoted5 years ago
    Specialists had 2 radically different views:
    1. either hysteria is an ‘irritation’ of the female sexual organs treated by pressure on the ovaries, packing them in ice, and surgical attacks on the clitoris,
    2. or hysteria is imaginary, mere play-acting by women.
  • unelettredamourhas quoted5 years ago
    paralysis, convulsions, somnambulism, hallucinations, loss of speech, sensations or memory.
    3. Hysterics were once persecuted as witches.
  • unelettredamourhas quoted5 years ago
    But what exactly is hysteria?
    1. The Greek word hystera means womb or uterus.
    2. It was believed only women could suffer hysterical symptoms:
  • unelettredamourhas quoted5 years ago
    1884‒87: Freud studied the effects of cocaine — starting on himself.
  • unelettredamourhas quoted5 years ago
    1883: Freud spends 5 months working in the Psychiatric Clinic under Theodor Meynert (1833–92), the greatest brain anatomist and neuropathologist at that time.
  • unelettredamourhas quoted5 years ago
    First he served as assistant to Hermann Nothnagel (1841–1905), Professor of Internal Medicine.
  • unelettredamourhas quoted5 years ago
    1882–1885: Freud had to face another long training period in clinical medicine at the Vienna General Hospital before starting a private practice.
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