Hysterical Girl
" Her parents brought her to therapy after she accused a family friend of sexual assault.Freud's account of his sessions with Dora was the only major case history he published of a female patient.Intercutting his published text with a scripted version told from Dora's point of view, Hysterical Girl revisits this landmark case.
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In 1900, Sigmund Freud began treating a 17-year old girl he called "Dora." Her parents brought her to therapy after she accused a family friend of sexual assault. Freud's account of his sessions with Dora was the only major case history he published of a female patient. Intercutting his published text with a scripted version told from Dora's point of view, Hysterical Girl revisits this landmark case. Woven throughout are several decades of cinema, Congressional hearings, and media coverage. What emerges is a portrait of the grip that Freud’s theory of hysteria has had on popular culture over the past century and into the present day.
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- Release date
- Mar 20, 2020
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- 0h 13m
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- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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