Joseph Breuer (psychiatrist)

Joseph Breuer (1842 - 1925) is a doctor and Austrian physiologist. It was interested in the Hystérie and is especially known to have dealt with the patient Bertha Pappenheim (case studied under the pseudonym of Anna O.), episode which influenced considerably the development of the Psychanalyse by Sigmund Freud.

Treatment of Anna O.

In 1880, Joseph Breuer deals with Anna O., patient reached inter alia hallucinations, paralyzes and eye trouble. Breuer declares being managed to look after its patient by the narration, under Hypnose of traumatic events which have occurred in its past. This case was at the origin of what one will call the the talking cure then Cathartic therapy.

In 1883, Breuer, which was a friend of Sigmund Freud, told this assumption of responsibility to him, which enormously inspired the future founder of the Psychanalyse. In 1895, Breuer and Freud publish together their Études on hysteria .

It is known now that less than one month after its alleged cure, Anna O. was placed in a private clinic in which it continued to develop the same hysterical symptoms as before. Breuer did not continue to deal with it and they are only six years later that its state started to improve.

Internal bonds

External bonds

Hippolyte Bernheim, Hysteria: Doctrines of Breuer and Freud, Hysteria , Paris, Doin Octave and wire editors, 1913.

Sources

Joseph Breuer Albrecht Hirschmüller (1978)
With discovered unconscious Henri F. Ellenberger (1970)
Memories of Anna O.: one mystification centenary Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (1996)
Madnesses with several: hysteria with the depression Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (2002)

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