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Hilda Doolittle and creativity. Freud's gift.

A K Richards
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The problem of work inhibition in a woman is addressed in terms of a specific case. The paper investigates the patient's view of how such an inhibition was cured in a brief analytic treatment of the American poet Hilda Doolittle conducted by Freud in 1933-34.

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A K Richards. 1992. Hilda Doolittle and creativity. Freud's gift.. https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.1992.11822683

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