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...er Jean-Martin Charcot, who was a neurologist that was well-known all over Europe for his studies of hysteria and his uses of hypnosis. Freud began his own studies of hysteria with Josef Breuer in 1893. In 1868, he first used the term "psychoanalysis," which is the term that he is most famous for. Freud spent most of his life publishing books on his theories, and in his private practice. He met various influences during his private practice, such as Anna O, one of his hysteria cases where he discovered that if he hypnotized Anna, she would talk of things she wouldn't recall in her conscious state. When she awoke, she would be cured of her hysteria. From the period of 1895 to roughly 1905, Freud's contributions led to the development of his theory, all of which were developed from his clinical work with patients. Theoretical formulations led to the topographic model of the psyche, which Freud categorized into three different subsections: the unconscious, preconscious, and conscious. Freud got better in his technique of psychoanalysis, and he became particularly interested at using his patient’s subjective impressions of him to help the patient to discover the origins of the unconscious memory or memories. Freud believed that disturbed mental states are influenced by repressed (buried) and forgotten impressions, many of them dating from childhood, and that if these recollections are revived in a process called psychoanalysis, the patient can be cured. He used a technique called free association, in which a patient talks about what is on his or her mind, jumping from one thought to the next. If patients were unable to free these deep, often painful thoughts, hypnosis (a sleeplike state in which a person is open to suggestion) might provide the information. The most extreme ideas presented by Freud were those ideas what he called the “Oedipus Complex” in 1905. He theorized that sex drive was the most powerful creator of a person’s psychology and that this sexuality was with a person from day one. He ascribed personality development to psychosexual stages and the “Oedipus Complex” itself was a young boys sexual attraction to his mother and jealousy toward his father. Freud later developed a comparable theory for girls. In 1902, Freud was appointed as a professor at the University of Vienna and influenced future psychology powerhouses like Carl Jung and Alfred Adler. For a number of years Freud continued researching, working, and writing, authoring many books. ...