<p>Freud was not the only one who disliked Dora. Twenty-four years later, as a forty-two-year-old married woman, Dora was referred to another psychiatrist, Felix Deutsch, for »hysterical« symptoms. Let me quote his description of her: The patient then started a tirade about her husband's indifference toward her offerings and how unfortunate her marital life had been. . . . this led her to talk about her own frustrated love life and her frigidity. . . . resentfully she expressed her conviction that her husband had been unfaithful to her . . .
<p>Like Sherlock Holmes, when Freud has a fact »he doesn't neglect to use it against Dora«. He says: »When I set myself the task of bringing to light what human beings keep hidden within them, not by the compelling power of hypnosis, but by observing what they say and what they show ... no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore«.</p>
<p>S. Freud, Case of Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (New York: W. W. Notron, 1952). Early in this case history he says: »The demands hysteria make on a physician can be met only by the most sympathetic spirit of inquiry and not by an attitude of superiority and contempt«. Unfortunately, Freud does not always maintain this spirit.</p>
<p>B. Bettelheim, »The Commitment Required of a Woman Entering a Scientific Profession in Present Day American Society« in Woman and the Scientific Professions, an MIT symposium on American Women in Science and Engineering (Cambridge, Mass., 1965).</p>