(person) by Deborah909 Sat Apr 01 2000 at 1:46:29
An unusual case study by Sigmund Freud, in that the subject was a young child and the boy's parents did all of the "treatment." Freud had no direct psychotherapeutic contact with Little Hans.

Little Hans had developed a phobia about cart horses, which Freud attributed to a developmentally appropriate Oedipal conflict leading to castration anxiety.

Freud's course of action, and I am not making this up, was to counsel the little boy's mother to threaten to cut off her son's penis.

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