Dreaming for Freud

An award-winning author reimagines one of Freud's most famous and controversial cases. Sheila Kohler's memoir Once We Were Sisters is now available.

Acclaimed for her spare prose and exceptional psychological insights in her novels Becoming Jane Eyre and Love Child, Sheila Kohler's latest is inspired by Sigmund Freud's Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. Dreaming for Freud paints a provocative and sensual portrait of one of history's most famous patients.

In the fall of 1900, Dora's father forces her to begin treatment with the doctor. Visiting him daily, the seventeen-year-old girl lies on his ottoman and tells him frankly about her strange life, and above all about her father's desires as far as she is concerned. But Dora abruptly ends her treatment after only eleven weeks, just as Freud was convinced he was on the cusp of a major discovery. In Dreaming for Freud, Kohler explores what might have happened between the man who changed the face of psychotherapy and the beautiful young woman who gave him her dreams.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 05/28/2014
ISBN: 9780143125198
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.21w x 0.69d

Review Citations: Library Journal 04/01/2014 pg. 81
Publishers Weekly 04/07/2014
Booklist 04/15/2014 pg. 24
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2014
People Weekly 08/31/2014 pg. 26