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Originally Posted by ECHOES
from: http://www.borderlinedisorders.com/public.htm
About a hundred years ago, a bright but very ill young woman found that if her doctor listened to her for hours while she told him about her inner experience and her memories, the symptoms that were making her life unbearable would gradually subside. The patient recovered and went on to become the first social worker in Germany.
Her doctor, Dr. Breuer, went on to become one of the teachers of Sigmund Freud, inventor of the "talking cure" -- psychoanalysis... |
The story is rather more convoluted than this hints at. The young woman was known for a long time as "Anna O". Her real name was Bertha Pappenheim. Some versions of the story have it that when Breuer realized that she was in love with him, he panicked and stopped the treatment, and she then got worse and was institutionalized. She did go on, largely through her own efforts, to become a well-known social worker. I see now that her story has undergone revisions, so that some claim that her problems were not psychological in origin at all. See Wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_O
