A lesson on hysteria (André Brouillet,1887). This painting, which Sigmund Freud took back with him to Vienna following studies with Jean Martin Charcot, shows Charcot (to the right of the patient), pioneer of neurology at the hospital ‘la Salpetriere’ in Paris. The patient is Blanche Wittmann, held by Joseph Babinski, who hypnotized her. Image courtesy of Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY