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wrote a monograph about this subject. In 1885, he received the grant to go to Paris and study with
the famous neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot who specialized in hypnosis. Under Charcot, they
performed private practices on neurotic people with the use of hypnosis. After a while, Freud
started to adopt the approach of his mentor, Josef Breuer, in the use of hypnosis which was
different from the French methods he learned during his studies. With this approach, the patient
had more freedom to talk and express themselves, revealing some possible causes coming from
their dreams and memories in the past in the process. Compared to the pure hypnosis method in
which the patient has to parrot what the neurologist orders them to say. And with this new approach
he found, he observed a significant improvement on the patients symptom relief. He called this
approach the Free Association. In 1886, Freud abandoned the term hypnosis and started calling his
clinical treatment and theories on which it was based on as Psychoanalysis. From then on, his
Psychoanalysis was passed onto other psychologists and psychiatrists, which became a big
contribution to the field of Psychotherapy. This method is very famous and still being practiced
today.
study at the pharmaceutical division of the German Company Bayer. The medication often use to
treat pain, fever and inflammation.
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