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Sigmund Freud diligently studied medicine at the University of Vienna and in 1882 began practicing medicine and researching medical pathology at Vienna General Hospital. His interest in the clinical presentation of aphasia and neuropathy in asylum patients led to collaborative research efforts with Charcot and Breuer. He coauthored “Studies on Hysteria” with Breuer, published in 1895, but then shortly thereafter abandoned hypnosis in favor of his talking cure, which he promoted as an effective psychological treatment for repressed trauma and its related emotions (Swartz, 2014). During the following years in private practice, he incorporated free association and dream analysis as techniques for treating anxiety, amnesia, unexplained paralysis, and psychosomatic complaints, primarily observed in his female patients. By 1896, Freud redefined hysteria in the psychological community and popularized the term psychoanalysis to refer to his new clinical method and the theories on which it was based (Gay, 2006).