... the patient's ability to describe the event, which was connected to the onset of hysteria, 'in the greatest possible detail' (Breuer and Freud,1893-1905). "Bertha was a woman of great intelligence and creativity, and she was a genuine collaborator in the invention of psychotherapy...Breuer, who had no taste for the role of authority, was open to this collaboration and he gave her the credit as co-inventor of the cathartic method" (Breger, p.105). Freud, however, who took precedence in choosing names for his younger brother and his own children (Breger,2000), adopted the technique, made it his own and called it 'free association'. Therapist as teacher Psychoanalysis is a causal therapy that, as it's mode of attack, employs techniques that remove causes rather than symptoms (Freud, 1916-7). Using the technique of free association, the therapist interprets, discovers and communicates the material within the patient's unconscious to the patient's conscious. Once the patient is conscious of ...

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