Josef Breuer

Josef Breuer
Born	(1842-01-15)15 January 1842 Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died	20 June 1925(1925-06-20) (aged 83) Vienna, Austria
Education	University of Vienna
School	Psychoanalysis

Josef Breuer (/ˈbrɔɪər/ BROY-ur, German: [ˈbʁɔʏɐ]; 15 January 1842 – 20 June 1925) was an Austrian physician who made discoveries in neurophysiology, and whose work during the 1880s with his patient Bertha Pappenheim, known as Anna O., developed the talking cure (cathartic method) which was used as the basis of psychoanalysis as developed by his protégé Sigmund Freud.^[1]