I want to give credit to him for his "finding" of the subconscious - THIS is actually the more interesting thing. Which of course, was long found by others but he deserves the credit for the Western modern world.

Yes, many atrocities were done on people in the name of whatever was the state of the arts. I remember this poor Kennedy daughter which had to endure the brain seizure and was afterwards crippled. Was not because of hysteria but ...you know, in the end those cases bare many similarities.