Let Me Continue to Speak the Truth: Bertha Pappenheim as Author and Activist

by Elizabeth Loentz

In 1953, Freud biographer Ernest Jones revealed that the famous hysteric Anna O. was really Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936), the prolific author, German-Jewish feminist, pioneering social worker, and activist. Elizabeth Loentz directs attention away from the young woman who arguably invented the talking cure and back to Pappenheim and her post-Anna O. achievements. Her writings, especially, reveal her to be one of the most versatile, productive, influential,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878204601
• ISBN13: 9780878204601
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"