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Women on the Couch: Genital Stimulation and the Birth of Psychoanalysis
Top of Form Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives Volume 21 , Issue 4 , 2011 Women on the Couch: Genital Stimulation and the Birth of Psychoanalysis DOI: 10.1080/10481885.2011.595316 Karen E. Starr Psy.D. a* & Lewis Aron Ph.D. a pages 373-392 Published online: 18 Aug 2011 Abstract Following Freud's emphasis on his rejection of hypnosis as leading up to the development of psychoanalysis, there has been little mention in the psychoanalytic literature of the larger context of the somatic medical treatment of hysteria within which Freud treated his hysterical patients, and which Freud himself practiced. We contend that Freud's emphasis obscured his association with massage, electrotherapy, and the procedure of genital stimulation practiced by his medical colleagues in the treatment of hysteria. We show that the history of genital stimulation—including its obfuscation, desexualization, med...