
An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.

Montgomery Clift
Sigmund Freud

Susannah York
Cecily Koertner

Larry Parks
Dr. Joseph Breuer

Susan Kohner
Martha Freud

Eileen Herlie
Frau Ida Koertner

Fernand Ledoux
Dr. Charcot

David McCallum
Carl von Schlossen

Rosalie Crutchley
Frau Amalia Freud

David Kossoff
Jacob Freud

Joseph Fürst
Herr Jacob Koertner
Alexander Mango
Babinsky

Leonard Sachs
Brouhardier

Eric Portman
Dr. Theodore Meynert

John Huston
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Ol Abdou
(uncredited)

Manfred Andrae
Student Doctor (uncredited)
Victor Beaumont
Dr. Guber (uncredited)

Allan Cuthbertson
Wilkie (uncredited)

Eduard Linkers
Dr. Torsch (uncredited)

Ferdy Mayne
Questioner at Final Lecture (uncredited)
John Huston
Wolfgang Reinhardt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles Kaufman
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