Freud's Early Psychoanalysis, Witch Trials and the Inquisitorial Method

Kathleen Duffy asks why Freud compared his ‘hysterical’ patients to the accused women in the ‘witch’ trials, and his ‘psychoanalytical’ treatment to the inquisitorial method of their judges. This book proves that Freud’s view of his method as inquisitorial was both serious and accurate.