1. Josef Breuer's mother died when he was quite young, and he was raised by his maternal grandmother and educated by his father until the age of eight.
11 Facts About Josef Breuer
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Josef Breuer graduated from the Akademisches Gymnasium of Vienna in 1858 and then studied at the university for one year before enrolling in the medical school of the University of Vienna.
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Josef Breuer passed his medical examinations in 1867 and went to work as assistant to the internist Johann Oppolzer at the university.
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Josef Breuer, working for Ewald Hering at the military medical school in Vienna, was the first to demonstrate the role of the vagus nerve in the reflex nature of respiration.
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Josef Breuer is known best perhaps for his work during the 1880s with Anna O, a woman suffering from "paralysis of her limbs, and anaesthesias, as well as disturbances of vision and speech".
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Josef Breuer observed that her symptoms reduced or ended after she described them to him.
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Josef Breuer invented the more serious appellation for this form of therapy, talking cure.
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Josef Breuer was then a mentor to the young Sigmund Freud, and had helped establish him in medical practice.
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Freud and Josef Breuer documented their discussions of Anna O and other case studies in their 1895 book, Studies in Hysteria.
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In 1894 Josef Breuer was elected a Corresponding Member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
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Josef Breuer married Mathilde Altmann in 1868, and they had five children.