Freud, Dora, and Vienna, 1900

New York: The Free Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Top edge of jacket rubbed and bumped. 1991 Hard Cover. xii, 299 pp. 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. In an effort to provide a glimpse into the private lives of upper-middle-class Jews in fin-de-siecle Vienna, Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1990 pursues the lives of both Freud and Dora before and after their meeting.