Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900 - by Hannah S Decker (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book studies one of Freud's famous, but unhappiest cases "Dora"--an adolescent girl from the upper-middle-class Viennese-Jewish family that he treated in his early years as a psychoanalyst. Decker locates both Freud and Dora in their historical context and reconstructs attitudes about Jews, women, and doctors in turn-of-the-century Vienna.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Exploring attitudes and beliefs surround Jews, women, and doctors in beginning of the twentieth century, Hannah S. Decker analyses one of Sigmund Freud's "unhappiest cases" (Peter Gay, <i>Freud: A Life for Our Time).</i></b> <p/>Evaluating the psychoanalytic encounter of Sigmund Freud and Dora, an emotionally troubled adolescent suffering from hysteria, Hannah S. Decker places the treatment of Dora into a larger social and historical context. <p/>In an effort to provide a glimpse into the private lives of upper-middle-class Jews in fin-de-siecle Vienna, <i>Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1990 </i>pursues the lives of both Freud and Dora before and after their meeting.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This book studies one of Freud's famous, but unhappiest cases 'Dora'--an adolescent girl from the upper-middle-class Viennese-Jewish family that he treated in his early years as a psychoanalyst. Hannah Decker does a wonderful job of locating both Freud and Dora in their historical context and of reconstructing attitudes about Jews, women, and doctors in turn-of-the-century Vienna.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Hannah Decker is a Professor at the University of Houston. She is a scholar of German history and the recipient of the University of Houston Research Excellence Award and Teacher Excellence Award.
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