Freud's “Dora” Case In Perspective * The Medical Treatment of Hysteria in Austria At the Turn of the Century

One day early in October 1900, Philipp Bauer, a prosperous man of 47 walked out of his apartment house on Liechtensteinstrasse in Vienna's Ninth District. He turned left, continued on the street, and turned left again when he reached Berggasse. This route took him slightly downhill in the direction of the Danube Canal, and after two blocks he entered an apartment house at number 19 and turned left to the ground office of Dr. Sigmund Freud. After a brief time in the waiting room, he was called into the doctor's consulting room.