The Psychotherapy of Hysteria
from Studies on Hysteria by Sigmund Freud
Freud begins the chapter with the statement of his discovery of a therapeutic method that is once a patient had described a traumatic event in the utmost detail the symptom of this trauma immediately disappears. Essentially when the patient is able to put the trauma into ordinary language and disassociate himself or herself from relieving the trauma. He goes on to see how far this method takes him in the study of hysteria.
Freud then talks about the method of hypnosis as a tool in understanding hysteria. He forms th…
