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The case of Anna O, along with being a clear demonstration of the talking cure, is an example of induced deception where the true meaning of actions or symptoms is disguised. Anna's theatrical symptoms have become the model for a “theatre of cure” created by Breuer and Freud. The contemporary psychoanalytic community continues to misrepresent the case to defend against various forms of awareness, the most serious being the role of destructive aggression in Anna's pathology and Breuer's destructive actions, which inflicted harm on his patient.