TY - JOUR
AU - Launer, John
AB - Q J Med 2005; 98:465–466 doi:10.1093/qjmed/hci068 Coda ‘At the time of her falling ill (in 1880) Fra¨ulein April 1881 and June 1882. She was able to satisfy Anna O was twenty-one years old’. Thus begins one herself of his identity only by holding his hands. of the most famous of all case histories. Its author As described by Dr Breuer, his treatment of Anna was Dr Josef Breuer. A kind, cultivated and generous gradually developed through three stages, as he responded to Anna’s own apparent wishes. In the man, Breuer was one of the most distinguished physicians of his time, and he counted the great first stage, he recognized that she could relieve her surgeon Theodor Billroth among his patients. He distress by making up and telling fairy tales, ‘always was also an eminent neurophysiologist and discov- sad and some of them very charming’—and he ered the action of the vagus nerve on respiration, encouraged her to do so. She herself called this activity ‘chimney sweeping’ or her ‘talking cure’ as well as the function of the semicircular canals. For some years he engaged a young man named (the origin of this famous term for all later forms of 
TI - Anna O and the ‘talking cure’
JF - QJM: An International Journal of Medicine
DO - 10.1093/qjmed/hci068
DA - 2005-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/anna-o-and-the-talking-cure-AA165CkCSW
SP - 465
EP - 466
VL - 98
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -