The story of Anna O.

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The story of Anna O.

by Lucy Freeman

Jason Aronson, 1994

  • pbk

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The story of Anna O. : the woman who led Freud to psychoanalysis

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Bibliography: p.267-268

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Anna O. was the cornerstone in the formation of Freud's discoveries and theories - yet he never saw her. He only heard about her in clinical detail from a colleague and friend who had treated and perhaps "cured" her. Grasping the implication of Breuer's revolutionary discovery about the human mind, Freud persuaded Breuer to collaborate with him in the first book about psychoanalysis, "Studies on Hysteria", containing Breuer's famous essay on Anna O. On the basis of discoveries inherent in that study, augmented by other experience and knowledge, Freud began to put together a hypothesis about how people get sick emotionally - and how they may get well. Lucy Freeman has taken a famous patient and made that patient come alive, a human being, a distinguished personality whose brief medical history is all that we have known of her until now.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The Patient: The Jargon
  • The Words
  • The Sentence
  • The Two Worlds
  • The Fairy Tales
  • The Great Trauma
  • The Talking Cure
  • The Denial
  • The Third World
  • The Face of Death
  • The Last Symptom
  • The Final Visit. Part 2 The Crusader: The Soup Kitchen
  • The Orphanage
  • The Feminist
  • The Organiser
  • The White Slave Rescuer
  • The Fourth Death
  • The New Home
  • The Third Little Bird
  • The Journeys East
  • The Great War
  • The Celebration
  • The Aftermath
  • The Voice of an Unknown Woman
  • The Enemy Within
  • The Final Fight
  • The End
  • The Tributes. Part 3 The Woman: The Case of Anna O.
  • The Revelation
  • The Lost Years
  • The Wasted Love
  • The Strange Drama of Healing
  • The Volcano
  • The Fantasy Whore
  • The Waif
  • The Ultimate Desertion
  • The "Small Fire".

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