- Country: USA
- Genres: Documentary, Short
- Release:
- Director: Kate Novack
- Writers: Kate Novack
- Language:
- Stars: Brian Kelly , Tommy Vines
- Runtime: min
- Awards:
- AKA: Hysterical Girl , Hysterical Girl (United States of America)
- Plot:
In 1900, Sigmund Freud began treating a 17-year old girl he called “Dora.” Her parents brought her to therapy after she accused a family friend of sexual assault. Freud’s account of his sessions with Dora was the only major case history he published of a female patient. Intercutting his published text with a scripted version told from Dora’s point of view, Hysterical Girl revisits this landmark case. Woven throughout are several decades of cinema, Congressional hearings, and media coverage. What emerges is a portrait of the grip that Freud’s theory of hysteria has had on popular culture over the past century and into the present day.
- IMDB:tt11878978