´I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora´s nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.´A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him. The 18-year-old ´Dora´ was sent for psychoanalysis by her father after threatening suicide as Freud´s enquiries deepened, he uncovered a remarkably unhappy and conflict-ridden family, with several competing versions of their story. The narrative became a crucial text in the evolution of his theories, combining his studies on hysteria and his new theory of dream-interpretation with early insights into the development of sexuality. The unwitting preconceptions and prejudices with which Freud approached his patient reveal his blindness and the broader attitudes of turn-of-the-century Viennese society, while his account of ´Dora´s´ emotional travails is as gripping as a modern novel.This new translation is accompanied by a subst...