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20 October 1912
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
76F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
I have just been reminded to report to you on a lady, Frau F.,1 who was sent to your clinic last month on my advice. I saw the case in the spring; on the basis of her physical symptoms I diagnosed Basedow's [Graves’] disease and, from her psychic symptoms, erotomania (paranoia), and considered the outlook to be very unfavourable. In the meantime you will no doubt have learned much more about the patient. I should be particularly pleased, of course, if I knew that you yourself were treating the patient, not one of your assistants.
The case, and her husband, fully deserve your interest. She is asking for a divorce, but I do not think she means to carry it through. The whole drama - that she no longer loves her husband, that she is in