Freud’s patient record books (1910–1920): on the duration and frequency of thirty-six of Freud’s analyses

This chapter provides the Sigmund Freud’s patient record books in 1910 to 1920. What we know about Freud's analytic work has come from his case histories, his technical papers, and scattered remarks in his correspondence, as well as from reports from his analysands. The published correspondence of Freud with Sandor Ferenczi and Ernest Jonesas well as the many contributions to Freud's biography and the history of psychoanalysis have provided the names of a number of women and men who were in analysis with Freud. Freud ascribed the fact that the intensive work with M. Hirschfeld did not lead to the desired changes to the severity of her disturbances and the "particularly unpropitious" circumstances of her life. Freud was concerned with the question of whether a psychosis could be analysed and what its relation to neurosis was.