Casi clinici Vol. 1: Signorina Anna O. - Signora Emmy von N.

by Josef Breuer, Sigmund Freud, Carlo Federico Piazza (Translator )

113 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1975

About the author

Austrian physician and physiologist who was acknowledged by Sigmund Freud and others as the principal forerunner of psychoanalysis. Breuer found, in 1880, that he had relieved symptoms of hysteria in a patient, Bertha Pappenheim, called Anna O. in his case study, after he had induced her to recall unpleasant past experiences under hypnosis. He concluded that neurotic symptoms result from unconscious processes and will disappear when these processes become conscious. The case of Anna O. was important because it introduced Freud to the cathartic method (the “talking cure”) that was pivotal in his later work.

Breuer described his methods and results to Freud and referred patients to him. With Freud he wrote Studien über Hysterie (1895), in which Breuer’s treatment of hysteria was described. Later disagreement on basic theories of therapy terminated their collaboration.

Breuer’s earlier work dealt with the respiratory cycle, and in 1868 he described the Hering-Breuer reflex involved in the sensory control of inhalations and exhalations in normal breathing. In 1873 he discovered the sensory function of the semicircular canals in the inner ear and their relation to positional sense or balance. He practiced medicine and was physician to many members of the Viennese medical faculty.

Reviews

[Hon Lady Selene · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ah yes, Breuer... the coward who famously ran away, after which his buddy, a different 24 year old screw-up would have the audacity to call his (female, always, obviously) patients the narcissist, the hysterical, the broken, the delusional, the manic, the psychotic, the perverse.

[Fabiola Taverna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super dettagliato e interessante. Ho apprezzato la scrittura molto dettagliata di Freud, rispetto a quella di Breuer, molto più scarna. Lo consiglio :D

[Subane · Rating 3 out of 5]

• lu pour le cours de psycho
• une bonne lecture