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...status, but as the air they breathed ... The two children of the Wertheimsteins, one of Vienna's wealthiest intellectual society families, were privately tutored to be artists, and the 'artistic natures' of these melancholy neurotics were the subject of general appreciation. The great psychiatrist Theodor Meynert encouraged his son to a career in painting, his daughter tells us, 'as if all those talents and inclinations which, passed on for generations, germinated in [the] father ... now broke through energetically in the son.' The great pathologist Carl von Rokitansky had his paternal dreams of glory fulfilled when...
...merchant, while Schnitzler's was a fashionable ear, nose and throat specialist, who basked in limelight reflected from theatrical patients. Both young men became physicians and took up neurology; both went to Nancy to study hypnosis under French psychiatrists; both worked in the Vienna clinic of Neurologist Theodor Meynert. Largely because of their experience there, both abandoned the conventional practice of medicine. (Wrote Schnitzler: "Meynert tried to convince patients with delusions that they could not possibly have them.") There the parallel in their lives ended-at least on the surface...
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