Rachel's Reviews > Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria

In many ways, Freud's article on Dora reveals him at his worst: bullying, arrogant, presumptuous, and insensitive. In other ways, we see a more noble Freud--someone who listens to his patient, in particular a female patient, for hours and hours on end; someone who is willing to lay aside many (though far from all) of his society's taboos and rigid rules of conduct in order to imagine alternative ways of envisioning sexuality, human relationships, and our emotions; and someone who is willing to take risks and make mistakes. Certainly, this case study is a very fascinating document.