A Case Of Hysteria — Sigmund Freud

A Case of Hysteria popularly known as the Dora Case affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him The 18 year old Dora was sent for psychoanalysis by her father after threatening suicide as Freud s enquiries deepened he uncovered a remarkably unhappy and conflict ridden family with several competing versions of their story The narrative became a crucial text in the evolution of his theories combining his studies on hysteria and his new theory of dream interpretation with early insights into the development of sexuality The unwitting preconceptions and prejudices with which Freud approached his patient reveal his blindness and the broader attitudes of turn of the century Viennese society while his account of Dora s emotional travails is as gripping as a modern novel This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introduction which sets the work in its biographical historical and intellectual context and offers a close and critical analysis of the text itself

A Case of Hysteria popularly known as the Dora Case affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him The 18 year old Dora was sent for psychoanalysis by her father after threatening suicide as Freuds enquiries deepened he uncovered a remarkably unhappy and conflict ridden family with several competing versions of their story The narrative became a crucial text in the evolution of his theories combining his studies on hysteria and his new theory of dream interpretation with early insights into the development of sexuality The unwitting preconceptions and prejudices with which Freud approached his patient reveal his blindness and the broader attitudes of turn of the century Viennese society while his account of Doras emotional travails is as gripping as a modern novel This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introduction which sets the work in its biographical historical and intellectual context and offers a close and critical analysis of the text itself

A Case of Hysteria popularly known as the Dora Case affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him The 18 year old Dora was sent for psychoanalysis by her father after threatening suicide as Freud s enquiries deepened he uncovered a remarkably unhappy and conflict ridden family with several competing versions of their story The narrative became a crucial text in the evolution of his theories combining his studies on hysteria and his new theory of dream interpretation with early insights into the development of sexuality The unwitting preconceptions and prejudices with which Freud approached his patient reveal his blindness and the broader attitudes of turn of the century Viennese society while his account of Dora s emotional travails is as gripping as a modern novel This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introduction which sets the work in its biographical historical and intellectual context and offers a close and critical analysis of the text itself