A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein (Vintage)

It was Jung and Bleuler who put Freud on the scientific map, not the other way around.

has supposed that she suffered from a brief “psychotic episode” indicative of “schizophrenia.” Bruno Bettelheim, whose trenchant comments on Carotenuto’s book have since been added as a foreword to it, alternates between “either a schizophrenic disturbance or severe hysteria with schizoid features.”

“The patient told me with certainty that the infantile sexual scene which analysis had apparently uncovered was pure fantasy and had never really happened to him.”

My guess is that Sabina Spielrein was one of those cases and that Jung’s diagnosis underlines the fact that hysteria could indeed be so serious that it mimicked a psychotic break with reality.

“Yes, we could—but then we would have to get up again.”