Sigmund Freud · Science
The birth of psychotherapy: from Breuer’s patient Anna O. and the ‘talking cure,’ through the abandonment of hypnosis for <em>free association</em>, to the discovery of <em>transference</em> - the idea that symptoms are speech, and that being truly heard can make a person well.
You learned that psychoanalytic therapy grew from Breuer’s Anna O. (who named it the ‘talking cure’), that Freud replaced hypnosis with free association, and that transference - the patient re-living old relationships with the analyst - is both an obstacle and the key to the cure. Explain how talking…
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