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Josef Breuer

Who

Josef Breuer · Science & Medicine

What

Physician who, with Freud, laid the foundations of psychoanalysis and the cathartic 'talking cure'.

When

1842, Vienna, Austria — 1925, Vienna, Austria

Where

Austria

Biography

Josef Breuer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physician who, with Freud, laid the foundations of psychoanalysis and the cathartic 'talking cure'.

How & why

Josef Breuer was an Austrian physician and physiologist who, through his treatment of the patient 'Anna O.' and his collaboration with Sigmund Freud, helped lay the foundations of psychoanalysis and the cathartic 'talking cure'. He also made important discoveries about the reflex control of breathing and the function of the inner ear. Breuer came from a Jewish family in Vienna.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

Contributions & Sources

Physician who, with Freud, laid the foundations of psychoanalysis and the cathartic 'talking cure'.

1842

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology