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Dora is the pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to a patient whom he diagnosed with hysteria, and treated for about eleven weeks in 1900. [1] . Her most manifest hysterical symptom was aphonia, or loss of voice. The patient's real name was Ida Bauer (1882–1945); her brother Otto Bauer was a leading member of the Austro-Marxist movement.
Another patient who sought help from Freud and whose story was published as a case study was Dora, a girl whose inexplicable cough led Freud to pursue psychological causes of her symptoms. Her treatment was reported by Freud in Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria in 1905, five years after she had consulted Freud.
Jun 23, 2024 · In Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905), Freud first published a case study on Ida Bauer, under the pseudonym “Dora”, a daughter of parents in a loveless marriage. Her father, a merchant, and mother, immigrated from Bohemia to Vienna.
Sep 1, 2010 · Case Study: Dora - The Girl Who Walked Out on Freud. Freud used his first case history, that of Dora, to explain infant sexuality, transference and the interpretation of dreams. Yet the...
An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria ( 1905 ), better known simply as “Dora,” is a case study written by the neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, which details the condition and treatment of Ida Bauer, a woman diagnosed with hysteria and given the pseudonym “Dora."
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 uncovered a remarkably unhappy and conflict-ridden family, with ...
The original title of the Dora case, “Dreams and Hysteria: A Fragment of an Analysis,” encapsulates some of its major clinical aims. In sum, Freud undertook to show how the analysis of dreams could be used in treatment to explain the etiology of hysteria and its symptomatic aftermath.
