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treating for hysteria several years earlier. Because of his rebuff by the Imperial Society oif physicians and his desire to establish a repulation for himself, Freud urged Breuer to collaborate with him in publishing a n account of Anna O and several other case of hysteria Breuer, however, was not as eager as the younger and more revolutionary Freud to publish a full treatise on hysteria built on only a few case studies. He also could not accept Freud’s notion that childhood sexual experience were the source of adult hysteria. Finally, and with some reluctance, Breuer agreed to publish with Freud studies on hysteria ( Breuer and Freud, 1895/1955). In this book, Freud introduced the term “psychical analysis,” and during the following year, he began calling his approach “psycho-analysis”. At about time studies on hysteria was published, Freud and Breuer had a professional disagreement and became estranged personally. Freud then turned to his friend Wilhelm Fliess, a Berlin physician who served as sounding board for Freud’s newly developing ideas. Freud’s latter to Fliess ( Freud , 1985) constitute a his firsthand account of the beginnings of psychoanalysis and reveal the embryonic stage of Freudian theory. Freud and Fliess had-became friends in 1887, but their relationship became more intimate following Freud’s break with Breuer.