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Sigmund Freud's evolution from neurology to psychiatry: evidence from his La Salpêtrière library.

Neurology

October 2011

Center for Brain and Nervous System Disorders (Neurocenter), Genolier Swiss Medical Network, and Department of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Clinique Valmont, Glion/Montreux, Switzerland.

Objective: To analyze the parallel between the scientific evolution of Sigmund Freud and his French library during and after his stay with Jean-Martin Charcot at La Salpêtrière in 1885-1886.

Methods: Systematic review of all identified volumes of Freud's personal library, and comparison with his life data and publications.

Results: The largest part of Freud's 125 French medical books up to 1900 (of 3,725 books overall) are devoted to hysteria and hypnotism, published mainly between 1885 and 1895.

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