The amazing Josef Breuer

The amazing

Josef Breuer

For Danna Paola Hernández Ramírez

Born in 1842 in Vienna, Austria. Born into a prestigious Jewish family, his mother died when Josef was only 4 years old. Then he left in care of his maternal grandmother and his father, Rabbi Léopold Breuer.

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He studied Medicine at the University of Vienna and during his first years of professional practice he worked as an assistant to Johann von Oppolzer and later to Karl Hering.

In 1880 Breuer began treating Bertha von Pappenheim, a hysteria patient who played a fundamental role in the emergence of psychoanalysis. She would go down in history as “Anna O.”

Since this was the pseudonym that Breuer and Freud gave him in their joint work Studies on Hysteria, the cornerstone of early psychoanalysis. According to Breuer, Pappenheim had two personalities that became increasingly differentiated as the treatment progressed.

Breuer noticed that Pappenheim's symptoms, which consisted mainly of paralysis, muteness, and partial blindness, temporarily subsided when he talked about them under hypnosis and attributed a cause. The patient also felt relieved when she talked about her dreams or her hallucinations, and it was her own preferences that guided Breuer.

Pappenheim called this type of intervention “speech cure” or “chimney cleaning”; Thus the cathartic method was born, consisting of hypnotizing the patient to remember the traumatic event that triggered the symptom and thus eliminate the associated negative emotions, and consequently the symptom.

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Referencias colaboradores de Wikipedia. (2023). Josef Breuer. Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Breuer Josef Breuer: Biografía de este pionero del psicoanálisis. (2017, 24 abril). https://psicologiaymente.com/biografias/josef-breuer