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Session 1
Freud: The Aetiology of Hysteria
Jeffery Smith, MD
3/14/11: Session 1 of10: Synopsis--How Freud's experience with trauma laid the foundation for all trauma therapy and for dynamic psychotherapy as well.
Reading: Freud: "The Aetiology of Hysteria, 1896.
How hysteria worked
Trauma before age 8.
Repressed memory
Event around puberty sets off sx.
Symptoms become chronic
Analysis uncovers memories
Cathartic healing removes symptoms.
Multiple threads and aspects of memory.
Anna O story
Memory
Repression = dissociation
Screen memories
Technique
Hypnosis
Pressure
Free association
Later development of symptoms as defence.
Catharsis & Processing of Memories
Making the unconscious conscious.Basic Analytic Concepts Derived From Trauma
Making the unconscious conscious
Catharsis
Acting out
Free association
Defenses Repression Resistance
The dark ages
Strachey on catharsis
Not mutative
Only for military psychiatry