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On his return to Vienna he worked with Josef Breuer on the treatment of hysteria and set up a private practice to treat patients with nervous disorders.
Back in the 20's, people were convinced that any woman with an increased libido, bad language, and the tendency to get into mischief had a disease they called hysteria.
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So when people come in with Globus, which is, you know, the old diagnosis, we don't really use the term anymore, was Globus Hystericus, which is you are being hysterical.
Hysteria was not taken out of official manuals until 1980, and it was just this catch-all term that doctors used to let themselves off the hook for diagnoses they were having trouble making.
Eventually, Brauer and Freud would go on to publish their book, Studies on Hysteria, in 1895. But as Freud continued to develop his own ideas around mental illness, a rift, a division, emerged with his collaborator.