[Prostitution wishes and rescue fantasies--flight from the father. Sketches from the life of a woman ("Anna O."--"P. Berthold"--Bertha Pappenheim)]

Psyche (Stuttg). 1990 Sep;44(9):788-825.
[Article in German]

Abstract

Bertha Pappenheim, Breuer's famous patient "Anna O.," was a socially engaged, successful, Jewish women's rights advocate. The details of her biography presented here are not as well known--especially the subsequent course of her illness and treatment and her struggle against prostitution and the white slave trade, the latter carried on with special fascination. All of these show that "Anna O." left Breuer's treatment far from cured and that Bertha was entangled in a lifelong daughter-father conflict.

MeSH terms

  • Catharsis
  • Father-Child Relations*
  • Female
  • Freudian Theory*
  • Humans
  • Hypnosis
  • Psychoanalytic Therapy / methods*
  • Sex Work / psychology*