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Bertha Pappenheim

  • “You feel oppressed by your Judaism only as long as you do not take pride in it.”

    • Bertha Pappenheim,
    • 1936, in Joseph L. Baron, ed., A Treasury of Jewish Quotations ()

  • “Psychoanalysis in the hands of the physician is what confession is in the hands of the Catholic priest. It depends on its user and its use, whether it becomes a beneficial tool or a two-edged sword.”

    • Bertha Pappenheim,
    • in D. Edinger, Bertha Pappenheim ()

Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian-born German poet, dramatist, essayist

(1859 - 1936)

She was the patient known as “Anna O” in the Breur-Freud case history.