Freud, Sigmund

Sigmund Freud is considered the founder of psychoanalysis and neurosis. Together with Jean-Martin Charcot he diagnosed for the first time the clinical picture of hysteria, mainly in women. He treated these with hypnosis, among other things, and became a hypnotist himself; at that time the term hypnosis doctor was also used. When Freud noticed the "undesirable" side effect that women fell in love with him under hypnosis, he tried other methods, such as free association.