Sigmund Freud's Influence On Hysteria

With the talking cure being what Freud used, like modern day treatment or consultations, he was able to discover the causes of symptoms were repressed thoughts and memories. He realized that the issue lied in the unconscious a place where a layperson cannot reach it without professional help. Sessions with patients became more of a listening game rather than what people were used to; "The private thoughts that are episodes in peoples ' lives can never be episodes in their biographies; psychoanalysis would encourage the voicing of private thoughts. Unlike a biography, and indeed unlike Hamlet, psychoanalysis is a conversation, and not a piece of writing (it doesn 't have a known beginning, middle, and end)" (Phillips 23). Freud and Breuer had used the findings from their use of the talking cure on hysteric patients to write a book together titled Studies on Hysteria in 1895. Sigmund Freud has been known to the modern world as the crazy man that never stops talking about sex. It was not until he heard the horrific anecdotes of his patients of sexual abuse did he become interested in the topic:
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Freud 's two sons Martin and Ernst were called to fight in the war and Anna, Freud 's daughter, who was out of the country was in fear of becoming a prisoner of war. In this time doctors that had read Freud 's work tried to use his techniques to treat shell-shocked soldiers. Freud in this time was frightened about losing a son in the war when in reality he lost a daughter, Sophie had died in January of 1920 with bad influenza (103). Though Freud was grieving the loss of a daughter that did not stop him from doing his work. He had always believed that the brain worked on a pleasure principle; this caused a conflict with the shell-shocked soldiers. Freud then uncovered that the brain was fighting between two instincts constantly, life and