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The Hysterical Self: Psychology in the Clinic. Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) Inscribed to Freud, on the day Freud left the Salpêtrière Clinico-Anatomic.

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1 The Hysterical Self: Psychology in the Clinic

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3 Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) Inscribed to Freud, on the day Freud left the Salpêtrière Clinico-Anatomic Method

4 Charcot (profile, far left) at theatrical reading, with writers Emile Zola and Edmond de Goncourt

5 Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière (1876-77)

6 Charcot’s Four Stages of Grand Hysteria 1.Tonic rigidity: limb contractures that mimicked a typical epileptic fit. 2.Dramatic body movements: contortions, illogical movements; clownism. 3. Passionate Attitudes: expressions of vivid emotional states. 4. State of delirium

7 Stages of the Hysterical Attack

8 “AUGUSTINE”

9 Beginning of the Attack

10 Tonic Rigidity—Stage 1

11 Contracture of the Face Stage 1

12 Stage 2—Clownisms, Illogical Movements “Circular Arch”

13 Passionate Attitudes Stage 3 “Menace”

14 Passionate Attitudes Stage 3 “Menace”

15 Passionate Attitudes Stage 3 “Aural Hallucinations”

16 Passionate Attitudes: “Loving Supplication”

17 Passionate Attitudes “Ecstasy”

18 Passionate Attitudes: Crucifixion

19 Zones of Hysterical Anesthesia Metalloscopy: Use of Magnets to shift areas of anaesthesia

20 Artificial Contracture

21 Catalepsy produced by sound

22 Charcot and Blanche Wittman

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24 A Case of Traumatic Male Hysteria

25 Hippolyte Bernheim (1840-1919) Suggestive Therapeutics (1886) head of the Nancy School

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27 Pierre Janet (1859-1947) Dissociation— Traumatic event and accompanying memories split off from consciousness Imperative Suggestion— suggestion that these memories didn’t exist

28 Janet’s Somnabulisms Monoideic—dominated by one idea, usually a transient episode. Polyideic--complex states or ideas; called fugue states, could involve a loss of identity for extended period. Recriprocal or Dominating Somnabulism (double personalities)—relatively permanent transition into another state; memory impaired across these states

29 Reciprocal Somnambulism Lady MacNish/Mary Reynolds

30 Alfred Binet (1857-1911) On Double Consciousness (1890) Alterations of the Personality (1896)

31 Examples of Automatic Writing with an anesthetic hand Binet (1890 and 1896)

32 Insensible Arm—hearing a Metronome Sensible arm Insensible arm while subject counted to five Sensible Arm Subject held dynamometer, connected to a recording cylinder. Binet (1896, p. 201)

33 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

34 Freud’s Neuropathological Training At the Institute of physiology in Vienna, headed by Ernst Brücke (1876) In the neuro-anatomical laboratory of Theodor Meynert (1883-1886)

35 Freud’s 1877 publication on the function of the large Reissner cells in the spinal cord of primitive fish Petromyzon, assigned to him by Professor Ernst Brücke.

36 Freud’s unpublished manuscript for a scientific psychology of 1895

37 Berggasse 19, Vienna (May 1938)

38 Joseph Breuer (1842-1925) STUDIES ON HYSTERIA 1895 Breuer and Freud

39 Anna O./ Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936) “TALKING CURE” or “CHIMNEY SWEEPING ”

40 Cathartic Method or Abreaction An original response to a traumatic event is suppressed, and the affect or emotion is not expressed The original affect then expresses itself in bodily symptoms, a process called hysterical conversion Cure consists of verbally reviewing the event, and releasing the original affect.

41 Carl Jung (1875-1961) “Psychological Complex” Uncovered with the use of association tests with patients Collaborated with Freud 1906-1912

42 Freud’s couch – for use of “free association” technique

43 Freud and his Couch

44 Active Repression: patient was motivated to actively repress traumatic information from consciousness. Content of repressed material was often sexual. Freud’s formulated the Seduction Theory in 1890s and rejected it in 1897.

45 Controversial 1980’s Historiography on Freud

46 Freud’s Structural Model of the Mind, 1923 ID: locus of fantasies, desire, unconscious EGO: emerged from Id, but had adapted to society EGO-IDEAL (Super-ego): source of repression, moral conscience

47 Manifest Content of Dream—its story-line, a conscious process DREAM CENSOR—lets some information out, represses, disguises other information Latent Content of Dream—dream thoughts, unconscious, often unacceptable wishes

48 Traumdeutung, Interpretation of Dreams (1900) Condensation: dream concentrates or compresses a number of different ideas into one; a composite picture. Displacement: transformation of dream thoughts into more acceptable thoughts in order to conceal unconscious meaning. Representation: all material gathered into a single situation in the dream. Symbolization: a certain set of symbols exist in unconscious, and become part of the dream.

49 International Psychoanalytic Congress, Weimar 1911

50 Freud’s Inner Circle (1922)

51 “Hotel Log Hints at Illicit Desire That Dr. Freud Didn’t Repress” Sigmund Freud with his wife, Martha Bernays Freud, center, and her sister, Minna Bernays, left, in 1929. from New York Times December 24, 2006


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