Sigmud  Freud

THE  CONCEPT  OF  CATHARSIS
      . . . was first used by Aristotle in connection with the release of pent-up emotions (as in aesthetic experience).   However its introduction into the history of Hypnosis did not occur until Freud, after several months of working in the Charcot camp, returned to Vienna.   There Freud found himself working with Dr. Breuer.   Freud tried to interest Charcot in Dr. Breuer's method of permitting the patient to talk freely and express deep feelings, but Charcot was not impressed.

      The colaborative work of Freud with Breuer led to the publication of important clinical findings in their ^«Studies on Hysteria^» (1895).   In this publication, they demonstrated the use of the abreactive method of Hypnosis as a ^«cathartic^» therapeutic tool; by raising to consciousness the memories and related emotions deriving from traumatic events immediately responsible for producing hysterical symptoms in those patients.

      ^«The model of Self should be constructed in terms of Id (which represents drives), The Ego (which represents reason), and The Super-Ego (which represents conscience - restraints or self-judgement) ^»

      Dr. Freud  asserted that the dissociated set of impulses found in the hystrionic patient must be qualitatively different from those found in the mainstream of their personal consciousness, and therefore must have been ^«pushed^» from awareness, (a form of Amnesia) as an act of self protection from the apparent  'Psychological Conflict.'

The Unconscious Mïnd becomes a powerful human tool !