!!!Breuer, Josef

b. Vienna, Jan. 15, 1842, 
d. Vienna, June 20, 1925, internist, physiologist; discovered the 
self-regulation of breathing through the nervus vagus. His "cathartic 
(purifying) method" for the healing of neurotic and hysterical defects 
was to be the starting point for S.  Freud in his theory of 
psycho-analysis.

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Work: Studien ueber Hysterie, 1895 (with S. Freud).

!Literature
A. Hirschmueller, Physiologie und Psychoanalyse in Leben 
und Werk J. B., 1978.



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