nted a special cell-staining technique. However, only a limited number of positions were available, and there were others ahead of him. Brücke helped him to get a grant to study, first with Charcot in Paris, then with his rival Bernheim in Nancy. Both of these men were investigating the use of hypnosis with hysterics. Freud used this idea later in his life, after exposure to Breuer.
After spending a short time as a resident in neurology and director of a children's ward in Berlin, he came back to Vienna, and married his fiancée whom he had been engaged to for several years: Martha Bernays. Finally he set up a practice in neuropsychiatry, with the help of Joseph Breuer.
Later in his life, his lectures became more controversial, especially pertaining to his theories of the libido as the sole motivation for man. This did not sit well in the Victorian era. His followers went on to be core players in the psychoanalytic movement of this time. However, Freud also had a bad habit of shutting out anyone who did not agree with him. Therefore, his dissenters went on to found opposing schools of thought.
Jean-Martin Charcot was the authority on neuropathology at the time. A professor at the University of Paris, and the director at the SalpĂȘtrière Hospital in Paris, Charcot studied various neurological diseases such as arthropathies or "Charcot Joints", amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, poliomyelitis, neuropathies or "Charcot-Marie-Tooth" disease, nuiliary aneurysms, and hysteria. The disease that Freud was
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