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Also Known As hysteria

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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist
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Ernst Kretschmer
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Édouard Claparède
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Pierre Janet
French neurologist and psychologist
Josef Breuer
Josef Breuer
Austrian physician

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