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February 13, 2017 15 mins

Bertha Pappenheim was spending each night by her sick father's bed when she began hallucinating. Josef Breuer would diagnose her with hysteria and spend two years practicing "the talking cure." He and Sigmund Freud later published her account as a case study under the name Anna O.

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Music in this episode:
Dream Blaze by Little Glass Men
Delta by Podington Bear
Slow Slow Sky by Blue Dot Sessions
From Here to Iceland (Full) by Loch Lomond
A Suicide by Candlegravity
You Bastard! by The Losers
Daydreamer by Podington Bear
Jupiter The Blue by Gillicuddy
The Temperature on the Bow of the Kaleetan by Chis Zabriskie
How it Fades by Scott Gratton
Be Mine and Be Kind (Instrumental) by Loch Lomond

 

 

 

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