Imagine growing up the gay daughter of Sigmund Freud, who taught that lesbianism can be a gateway to mental illness. Furthermore, he said that lesbianism is caused by the father and is curable by psychoanalysis. Now imagine that he analyzes you. That s the premise of award-winning science journalist Rebecca Coffey s fact-based novel, "Hysterical: Anna Freud s Story." The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Roundtable of the American Library Association has named "Hysterical" a 2015 Over the Rainbow book. Booklist called "Hysterical" avidly researched, shrewd, and unnerving as well as...
Imagine growing up the gay daughter of Sigmund Freud, who taught that lesbianism can be a gateway to mental illness. Furthermore, he said that lesbian...