Freud's Dora: A Biography of Ida Bauer Adler

Freud's 17-year-old case study "Dora" is well known in the literature of psychoanalysis. Yet few know the full story—told here for the first time—of this notable woman, who walked out on Freud after three months and, in a sense, cured herself. Born into an important Jewish-Austrian family, Ida Bauer Adler suffered from "petite hysteria"—loss of voice, difficulty breathing, migraines, fainting spells—brought on by the overt sexuality of her relatives. Growing up in a home beset with syphilis...