Psychoanalysis in the hands of the physician is what confession is in the hands of the Catholic priest. — Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O.) (image via Wikimedia Commons) 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 fictions with her real life in Vienna. Bedridden at 21. Diagnosed with "hysteria."
A Woman to Know: Bertha Pappenheim
A Woman to Know: Bertha Pappenheim
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.) (image via Wikimedia Commons) 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 fictions with her real life in Vienna. Bedridden at 21. Diagnosed with "hysteria."