Hysterical Girl 2020
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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.
- Released: 2020-03-20
- Runtime: 13 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Tommy Vines, Brian Kelly
- Director: Andrew Rossi, Kate Novack, Steven Ross, Kate Novack, Bryan Sarkinen
