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Finished med school, then became a clinical psychologist. Founder of psychoanalysis: emphasizes the importance of unconscious forces: forces of which we are unaware. He stopped when he found out about it addictive properties. Anna o. was the first patient that was treated by psychoanalysis. She suffered from a conversion disorder in which her right arm and leg were paralyzed. She had difficulty seeing, was nauseous, and was unable to drink any liquids or to speak and understand her mother tongue. She was also prone to states of absence. She would talk about her repressed memories under hypnosis which then relieved her of her illness. Anna unable to chase away a snake > paralysis of legs, unable to speak mother tongue. Once she was able to talk about these repressed memories, the symptoms went away: the details of the events and emotions were unaware of by the patient.
