Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, studied hypnotism with both Charcot and Bernheim. Initially an enthusiastic proponent of hypnotherapy hr began to emphasise and popularise the use of hypnotic regression as a therapeutic method. He wrote a favourable article on hypnotism and published an influential series of case studies which became the founding text of the subsequent tradition known as “hypno-analysis” or “regression hypnotherapy”. Later, however, Freud abandoned the use of hypnotism in favour of his developing methods of psychoanalysis through free association and interpretation of the unconscious.

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