The Aetiology of Hysteria

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The Aetiology of Hysteria (German: Über die Ätiologie der Hysterie) is a paper by Sigmund Freud about the sexual abuse of children below the age of puberty and its possible causation of mental illness in adults. Presented in April 1896, it is where Freud first outlined his seduction theory.