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'''''Studies on Hysteria''''' ([[German language|German]]: '''''Studien über Hysterie''''') was a book published in [[1895]] by [[Sigmund Freud]] and [[Josef Breuer]]. It contained a number of Breuer and Freud's case studies of "[[hysteria|hysterics]]". It included one of their most famous cases, Breuer's [[Anna O.]], which introduced the technique of [[psychoanalysis]] as a form of cure.
Studies on Hysteria
Beginning in 1892, Sigmund Freud gradually abandoned the technique of hypnosis and began using the "method of cathartic abreaction" that had been described to him by his older colleague, Josef Breuer, ten years earlier. He became increasingly convinced of the sexual origin of neurotic disturbances in his patients and, uneasy over the work Pierre Janet had begun to publish (L'État mental des hystériques, 1892-1894), convinced Breuer to join him in writing a book that, by situating the origin of their research in 1881, would assure...
[[Category:1895 books]]
