Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story

A brilliant, haunting work of literary and historical fiction, Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story reimagines the extraordinary-and often overlooked-life of Anna Freud, the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud.

Imagine growing up smart, ambitious, and queer in a home where your father, Sigmund Freud, thinks that women should aspire to be wives and calls lesbianism a gateway to mental illness. He also says that lesbianism is always caused by the father, and is usually curable by psychoanalysis.

Then ...