Acclaimed for her spare prose and exceptional psychological insights in her novels BECOMING JANE EYRE and LOVE CHILD, Sheila Kohler’s latest is inspired by Sigmund Freud’s DORA: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. DREAMING FOR FREUD paints a provocative and sensual portrait of one of history’s most famous patients.

In the fall of 1900, Dora’s father forces her to begin treatment with the doctor. Visiting him daily, the 17-year-old girl lies on his ottoman and tells him frankly about her strange life, and above all about her father's desires as far as she is concerned. But Dora abruptly ends her treatment after only 11 weeks, just as Freud was convinced he was on the cusp of a major discovery. In DREAMING FOR FREUD, Kohler explores what might have happened between the man who changed the face of psychotherapy and the beautiful young woman who gave him her dreams.

Dreaming for Freud
by Sheila Kohler

• Publication Date: May 27, 2014
• Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• ISBN-10: 0143125192
• ISBN-13: 9780143125198