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...most interesting of these influences is the case history of Freud's patient Emma Eckstein. One of the first patients treated to Freud-style psychoanalysis, Emma suffered from stomach ailments and menstrual problems. Freud's closest personal and professional friend at the time was Wilhelm Fliess, a Berlin physician who developed the unusual theory that sexual problems are closely linked to the nose and could be corrected by nasal surgery. After conferring, the two doctors decided that such surgery might help Emma, and early in 1895 Fliess came to Vienna to operate...
...likely that he witnessed autopsies performed on young children who had been abused, raped, and murdered. To Masson, this means that Freud must have known that sexual abuse was a common part of many childhoods and only surrendered his seduction theory to criticism and his guilt over the Eckstein case. Indeed, Masson maintains that Freud was haunted by the seduction theory all his life, for he knew how widespread child abuse was from his time in Paris...
...call Freud sexist is nothing new, but this book is striking in its account of Eckstein's bungled treatment at the hands of Freud and Fliess. The illfated operation can be excused as potentially well-meaning, but the two men's attitudes toward her in the aftermath of the surgery are truly appalling. Neither doctor, Masson's research reveals, felt any guilt or compassion towards Emma, who nearly died as a result of the failed operation...
...most important principle of successful teaching is to have a deep respect for students," said Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics, at another panel discussion. Some teachers might have a problem with "respect"--something a student, or anybody else, needs to earn. But good expectation is an attitude we can bring forward in advance of evidence, or even (remembering the second prophecy) in contradiction to evidence. It approximates respect; it produces the same effects...
...Eckstein's recommendations are not altogether new," Carliner said, adding, "ICEA Chairman and Professor of Economics Martin S.I. Feldstein'61 has been saying the same thing about the budget deficit and the value of the dollar...