Hysterical Girl (movie)
- User score: 7
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Kate Novack
- Production companies: Rossvack Productions
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 3/20/2020
- Run time: 13 min.
Movie description
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.
