PSYC2242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Anna O., Neurology
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Breuer (physician in vienna) worked with him and did a famous study that was published on a woman named anna o 1880-1882. You can see the beginnings of freud"s psychoanalytic theory here . Decided that cocaine cured lots of problems 1884 cocaine experiments. Studied with charcot in paris from 1885-1886. Charcot was also interested in hypnosis, so freud tried this a bit with various people. 1900 interpretation of dreams published this book at age 44 years of age. Based on patients who we would today call neurotic. He had tried various ways of dealing with them, hypnosis included. He got them to talk about their dreams thought dreams were similar to hypnosis, but ended up just relying on dreams and published his book. This is a clear beginning to psychoanalytic thinking. Gathered other people in vienna interested in this topic, including people outside of vienna. Fame started spreading in england, america, etc.