Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story

FACTS: Anna Freud (1895-1982) was her father Sigmund ?s sounding board and chief collaborator. Yet she harbored secrets that could have shaken the foundations of his growing legacy. Suspecting as much, Sigmund psychoanalyzed his daughter.

Was that analysis the erotic echo chamber that he warned analysis always is? Who was Dorothy Burlingham, a figure that most of Sigmund?s biographers have tirelessly ignored? How did Anna manage to live a full life and become a guiding force for analysts, educators, and humanitarians, all while devoting herself to her wary father as he aged and died? Hysterical is Anna Freud?s fictional autobiography; in it she tells her full story for the first time.