PRPS 380 Lecture Notes - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Sigmund Freud, Anxiety Disorder
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Sigmund freud"s theory of personality and system of therapy for treating mental disorders. He had a passionate, sexual attachment to her. Freud believed that cocaine was a miracle drug. He often consumed it and prescribed it to his patients. This was judged by man professionals to be the contributing factor to cocaine addiction in europe and the us which lasted into the 1920"s. 1881 freud established a practice and began exploring personalities of people suffering from mental disorders. Martin charcot (hypnotist) helped freud discover the possible sexual basis of. 1896 freud concedes that sexual conflicts were the primary causes of all neuroses. He connected childhood sexual abuse to adult neuroticism. Freud retracted his theory about a year after he established it, stating that the patients were only imagining the sexual abuse they were experiencing. Masson, who stated that freud only stated that the sexual abuse was fantasy because his ideas would be more widely accepted.
