ent, Freud said:
"In the study of hysteria, local diagnosis and electrical reactions do not come into picture,
while an exhaustive account of mental processes, of the kind we were accustomed to
having from imaginative writers, enables me, by the application of a few psychological
formulas, to obtain a kind of insight into the origin of a hysteria" (Freud 15).
He gradually formed ideas about the origin and treatment of mental illness. He used the
term psychoanalysis for both his theories and methods of treatment. When his ideas were
first presented in the 1890's, other physicians reacted with hostility. But Freud eventually
attracted followers, and by 1910 he had gained international recognition. During the next
ten years, Freud's reputation continued to grow, with the exception of two of his earliest
followers and close friends, Alfred Alder and Carl Jung (Garcia 132). This is because
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