Hysteria is a graphic novel account of the first steps,errors, and frustrations of Sigmund Freud's career,which would lead to the foundation of a revolutionary newclinical therapy: psychoanalysis. The book traces Freud'searly training in neurological research and medicine;the crucial turning-point of his studies with Jean-MartinCharcot at La Salpêtrière; and his establishment of atherapeutic practice in Vienna. Perfectly matching textand illustrations, Hysteria recounts Freud's interest inhis colleague Josef Breuer's "Anna O" case study, as wellas giving an account of his own case histories of hysteria,particularly the treatment of Fräulein Elisabeth von R. Thestudies brought to life in this authoritative, beautifullyillustrated graphic novel are collected in Freud and Breuer'sco-authored Studies in Hysteria, which marked the birth ofpsychoanalysis.