Freud first met Charcot during Freud's 20-week visit to Paris. The occasion was the first of Charcot's famous Leçons du Mardi at the Salpêtrière asylum. Over time, Freud grew close to Charcot and was strongly influenced by Charcot's demonstrations of the relation between hypnotic suggestibility and hysterical symptoms. After returning to Vienna, Sigmund Freud gave a public lecture in 1886 on Charcot's proof of hysteria in males. Ridiculed by Viennese medical circles, Freud set out to find an actual case to present to the medical society.

Type of event: Other Notable Event

Country: Austria

Region: Europe and the former USSR