Psychotherapy of Hysteria

The Psychotherapy of Hysteria from Studies on Hysteria by Sigmund Freud Freud begins the chapter with the statement of his discovery of a therapeutic method that is once a patient had described a traumatic event in the utmost detail the symptom of this trauma immediately disappears. Essentially when the patient is able to put the trauma into ordinary language and disassociate himself or herself from relieving the trauma. He goes on to see how far …

…clear about the problems of transference and counter-transference. Strangely enough in this study of hysteria he seems allude that this is the area where the analyst becomes closest to the client, or else that he cannot help it being so. Finally he says that the essence of mental health is remembrance. There is nothing that can change the past; it is our acceptance of it that can lead to happiness and our mental well being.