Talking Cure
The Talking Cure was the term used (along with "chimney sweeping") by Josef Breuer for verbal therapy given his patient Bertha Pappenheim (under the alias Anna O.), first published in Studies on Hysteria (1895).
As Ernest Jones put it, "On one occasion she related the details of the first appearance of a particular symptom and, to Breuer's great astonishment, this resulted in its complete disappearance"; or in Lacan's words, "the more Anna provided signifiers, the more she chattered on, the better it went".
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