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World Service,10 May 2002,26 mins

History of Psychotherapy

Talking Cures

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How psychotherapy has grown over the past century, from 19th-century ideas about "hysteria" in women to Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis, which has given rise to widespread "talking cures". Presenter: Barbara Myers.

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