Case of Hysteria

''I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora''s nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.'' A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him. The 18-year-old ''Dora'' was sent for psychoanalysis by her father after threatening suicide; as Freud''s enquiries deepened, he ...