A Woman to Know: Bertha Pappenheim
Psychoanalysis in the hands of the physician is what confession is in the hands of the Catholic priest. — Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O.)
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Bertha couldn't sleep. She hallucinated snakes crawling along the walls and consuming her fingertips. She made up elaborate fairy tales to calm her troubled brain, often confusing her own fict…
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