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The cornerstone of psychoanalysis-and legacy of the landmark Freud/Breuer collaboration-featuring the classic case of Anna O. and the evolution of the cathartic method, in the definitive Strachey translation. Re-packaged for the contemporary audience with what promises to be an unconventional foreword by Irvin Yalom, the novelist and psychiatrist who imagined Breuer in When Nietzsche Wept.
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A CHANCE observation has led us, over a number of years, to investigate a great variety of different forms and symptoms of hysteria, with a view to discovering their precipitating cause-the event which provoked the first occurrence, often many years earlier, of the phenomenon in question. Read the first page
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A CHANCE observation has led us, over a number of years, to investigate a great variety of different forms and symptoms of hysteria, with a view to discovering their precipitating cause-the event which provoked the first occurrence, often many years earlier, of the phenomenon in question. Read the first page
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The hidden drives beneath hysteria
27 Jan 2001
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A fascinating book that explores the hidden factors behind anxiety, written when Freud was still studying his first hysterical patients that became famous in the psychoanalytic literature. The collaboration with Breur was actually sealed with this book, but ironically it was also the end of their friendship. Apart from the psychoanalytic concepts, the reader can really enjoy the five case studies included in "Study on hysteria". Only one case study was written by Breur and this goes to show that Freud really wanted to go deep into the unconscious whereas Breur after the first patient didn't go any further; basically because he would have had to confront himself with the patient's sexual drives as well as his instincts. This is a very stimulating book that allows the reader to appreciate the kind of female patients affected by hysteria before the 20th century, that were not understood by most psychiatrists. Freud menaged to understand why the repression of the sexual instinct led to a neurosis.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Should be required reading in public schools
29 Jan 2008
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I'm not disputing the first reviewer who gave the book one star because it is a poor translation. Strachey's translation is good enough, though, to make the book readable, and it should be read by everyone. Freud's clarity of thought and insight and pure intelligence is well represented in this book, and it serves as a decent introduction to elementary psychoanalysis.
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THE FOUNDATIONAL WORK OF LATER FREUDIAN PSYCHOLOGY
14 Aug 2010
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Josef Breuer (1842-1925) was an Austrian physician whose works laid the foundation of psychoanalysis. This collaborative effort was Freud's first book. Here are some representative quotations from the book:
"(E)ach individual hysterical symptom immediately and permanently disappeared when we had succeeded in bringing clearly to light the memory of the event by which it was provoked and in arousing its accompanying affect, and when the patient had described that event in the greatest possible detail and had put the affect into words."
"(One patient) aptly described this procedure, speaking seriously, as a 'talking cure,' while she referred to it jokingly as 'chimney-sweeping.'"
"As regards the symptoms disappearing after being 'talked away,' I cannot use this as evidence; it may very well be explained by suggestion."
"This procedure was one of clearing away the pathogenic psychical material layer by layer, and we liked to compare it with the technique of excavating a buried city."
"Originality is claimed for very little of what will be found in the following pages."
"We describe as conscious those ideas which we observe as active in us, or which we should observe if we attended to them... and if others, apart from those, should be current at the time, we should have to call them unconscious ideas."
"(T)he great majority of severe neuroses in women have their origin in the marriage bed."
"(B)y means of my psychical work I had to overcome a psychical force in the patients which was opposed to the pathogenic ideas becoming conscious (being remembered)."
"(E)ach individual hysterical symptom immediately and permanently disappeared when we had succeeded in bringing clearly to light the memory of the event by which it was provoked and in arousing its accompanying affect, and when the patient had described that event in the greatest possible detail and had put the affect into words."
"(One patient) aptly described this procedure, speaking seriously, as a 'talking cure,' while she referred to it jokingly as 'chimney-sweeping.'"
"As regards the symptoms disappearing after being 'talked away,' I cannot use this as evidence; it may very well be explained by suggestion."
"This procedure was one of clearing away the pathogenic psychical material layer by layer, and we liked to compare it with the technique of excavating a buried city."
"Originality is claimed for very little of what will be found in the following pages."
"We describe as conscious those ideas which we observe as active in us, or which we should observe if we attended to them... and if others, apart from those, should be current at the time, we should have to call them unconscious ideas."
"(T)he great majority of severe neuroses in women have their origin in the marriage bed."
"(B)y means of my psychical work I had to overcome a psychical force in the patients which was opposed to the pathogenic ideas becoming conscious (being remembered)."
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