Quotes About Female patients

As the feminist psychiatrist Judith Herman puts it in her book Trauma and Recovery: "His correspondence makes clear that he was increasingly troubled by the radical social implications of his hypothesis. . . . Faced with this dilemma, Freud stopped listening to his female patients." If they were telling the truth, he would have to challenge the whole edifice of patriarchal authority to support them.

Using this novel method, doctors could treat female patients without violating the honor of her family.

When Arthur arrived, he was assigned to R Building, a special ward for "violent women.