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The Talking Cure was a term originally offered by Dr. Josef Breuer's patient Bertha Pappenheim (written about in Studies on Hysteria in 1893 as Anna O.) along with "chimney sweep" to describe the talking therapy that relieved her of her hysterical symptoms (symptoms which had no organic origin—currently referred to as somatoform disorders—and were found to ameliorate once repressed trauma and their related emotions were expressed, later called catharsis). The term "talking cure," as well as the Anna O. case study, were later adopted by Dr. Sigmund Freud to describe the fundamental work of psychoanalysis, and in fact he referred to them here in North America in his Lectures on Psychoanalysis at Clark University, Worcester, MA, in September 1909.
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