Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen's response is predicated on as many as five separate significant misunderstandings or mistranslations of the original German, which makes his text quite unreliable. It is also replete with assumptions and claims for which there is no corroborating evidence or which are false. These include: that Breuer was the Freud-family doctor; that the patient and her children were still under Freud's observation in the autumn of 1892; that Freud and Eli Bernays were school-friends; that Freud linked the kind of ‘disorderly’ sexuality exhibited by Eli to neurasthenia; that Martha was older than average at the birth of her first child; that Freud did not know that the use of hypnosis to affect lactation had been demonstrated long before Bernheim; that Alfred Kadisch was a prominent lawyer; that Freud implied his patient had more than one brother; that the Schmidl family were in Constantinople when Freud wrote his paper. To all this must be added the strained logic and bizarre non sequiturs of his argument, such as the idea that