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Description: | The original couch on which psychoanalysis was created still dominates the study at the Freud Museum London. In 1891, when he was still only a young neurologist, a grateful patient gave Dr Sigmund Freud a couch. Over the following decade he developed a new method of treatment. The patient lies on the couch and talks about dreams, memories, fantasies or whatever else comes to mind. The analyst sits behind and listens with their "third ear" responsive to the voice of the unconscious. Hundreds of patients were analyzed on this couch. In 1938 it was brought to Hampstead and continued in use until Freud finally gave up his practice on 1 August 1939, only seven weeks before his death. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Freud Museum London / Peter Aprahamian | Rights holder: | Freud Museum London | Subjects: | Work Science and Medicine | Temporal: | 1986 | Source: | Freud Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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