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“His wife came from a family steeped in spiritualism. Emilie herself had been required as a child to sit behind her father while he composed his sermons—to keep the devil from insinuating himself into the text of the next day's address to the faithful. The marriage of Carl Gustav's parents was seriously troubled and the mother spent time outside the home as a patient in the Fried-matt Hospital.”

Started this up again from the summer. And I did watch the movie.

Such an impressive book - so well research and great writing. Oh, if only I could write such a dissertation!

Such an interesting historical account of not only Sabina S., one of the first women to practice and write in psychoanalysis, but the beginnings of psychoanalysis, the strange late 19th cent/early 20th cent. hysteria/neuroses that somehow emerged and disappeared with the time, etc. Based on a dissertation. I probably won't watch the movie, so love this book.