Hysterical Girl
MovieTitle | Hysterical Girl |
User score | 7 |
Release date | Mar 20, 2020 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Kate Novack |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Rossvack Productions |
Run time | 13 min. |
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.