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Author Skues, Richard A., 1953-

Title Sigmund Freud and the history of Anna O. : reopening a closed case / Richard A. Skues.

Imprint Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillian, 2006.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  150.1952 F889SK    Check Shelf
Description xi, 203 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-198) and index.
Contents pt. 1. The evolution of the case -- pt. 2. The evolution of the legend.
Summary "In his published writings Sigmund Freud maintained that it was the success of Josef Breuer's treatment of the patient known as Anna O. that prepared the ground for the development of psychoanalysis. But even during Freud's lifetime rumours began to circulate suggesting that the case was not the great success that it appeared, and in the light of more recent evidence most historians of psychoanalysis today regard Breur's treatment as a failure. Some have gone so far as to claim that because Freud knew this to be so, a fraud lies at the very foundation of psychoanalysis." "In a close scrutiny of the available evidence on the outcome of the case Richard Skues argues that the widely held view of it as a failure must be rejected. This new and comprehensive study of the Anna O. case history therefore has major implications for the last half century of scholarship on this most celebrated of patients."--Jacket.
Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Pappenheim, Bertha, 1859-1936.
Breuer, Josef, 1842-1925. Studien über Hysterie.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
Pappenheim, Bertha, 1859-1936.
Breuer, Josef, 1842-1925 Studien über Hysterie.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. (OCoLC)fst00034252
Hysteria -- Case studies.
Pappenheim, Bertha, 1859-1936. (OCoLC)fst00099254
Psychoanalysis -- Case studies.
Hysteria.
Freudian Theory -- history.
Psychoanalysis -- history.
Hysteria. (OCoLC)fst00966135
Psychoanalysis. (OCoLC)fst01081235
Genre/Form Case Reports.
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
ISBN 9780230005303 (alk. paper)
0230005306 (alk. paper)
0230224210 (pbk.)
9780230224216 (pbk.)
Standard No. 9780230005303
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