The Enigma of Anna O. : A Biography of Bertha Pappenheim

By Melinda Given Guttmann

Bertha Pappenheim became a legend twice: first, in Vienna, under the pseudonym 'Anna O', when she cured herself of hysterical symptoms by telling fairy tales which she termed 'the talking cure', upon... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559212853
• ISBN13: 9781559212854
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Moyer Bell
• Length: 413 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

One great book.

This well-researched and engaging biography broadens the awarenesses of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, historians of Europe in the past century and of Jewish history, and feminists. Knowing Anna O.'s enormously influential life trajectory sends a message of which we need continual reminders: someone can suffer from severe mental illness in one phase of his/her life and emerge from the experience strong and heroic, making powerfully contructive contributions.And read Gail Hornstein's "To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World:The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann" - they complement each other beautifully.