Publisher's Synopsis
In this work, available in English for the first time, the author shows how the dramatic hysteria of Freud's time helped give birth to psychoanalysis and helped Freud discover a new kind of human relationship. He demonstrates how psychoanalysis and hysteria continue to be inextricably linked, producing the governing principle of all analytic therapies: to treat and cure hysteria, another hysteria is created artificially and the analytic treatment of any neurosis is the setting up of a hysterical neurosis and its final resolution. If by the end of treatment, this new neurosis is resolved, so too will be the symptoms that first brought the patient into therapy.
