From Joseph's Breuer's account, it would appear that Bertha Pappenheim slipped easily into the psychotherapeutic process. Like Dorothy suddenly finding herself in Munchkinland in The Wizard of Oz, Bertha doesn't seem daunted by the strange land of psychotherapy. She was quickly … [Read more...] about The Way Back to Kansas
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Sweet Child o’ Mine
Amalia Nathansohn was born in Brody, then part of Galicia, now a town of 24,000 people in Ukraine, in 1835. Her family then moved to Odessa, before settling in Vienna. When Amalia was nineteen, her family decided she would marry to Jacob Freud, a merchant from the Moravian town … [Read more...] about Sweet Child o’ Mine
What Lies Beneath
In her novel, "Guises of Desire," based on the relationship between Bertha Pappenheim and Dr Joseph Breuer, Hilda Reilly first describes Bertha as a young woman working hard to meet the expectations of her orthodox Jewish family. As the therapeutic relationship between … [Read more...] about What Lies Beneath
A Love That Changed the World
Freud biographer, Peter Gay, says that the only relationship Sigmund Freud sentimentalised was the tie between a mother and her son. Freud says that the maternal affection for the son is "the most perfect, easily the most ambivalence-free of all human relationship." Gay also … [Read more...] about A Love That Changed the World
With Both Hands
Bertha Pappenheim had the ability to take advantage of the opportunities life offered her. Sensing Joseph Breuer could help her, she embraced the psychotherapy process. Like Bertha, psychotherapy patients are often surprised to discover how much a psychotherapy offers, and … [Read more...] about With Both Hands