Hysterical Girl (2020)

In 1900 Sigmund Freud began treating a 17year old girl he called Dora Her parents brought her to therapy after she accused a family friend of sexual assault Freuds 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 Doras 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 Freuds theory of hysteria has had on popular culture over the past century and into the present day