Obsessional Neurosis: Decoding Freud’s Rat Man Case Study
Identification and Presentation of the Case The individual known universally in psychoanalytic literature as the Rat Man was a patient treated by Sigmund Freud between 1907 and 1908. His case was formally documented in Freud’s seminal text, “Notes upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis,” published in 1909. While Freud meticulously maintained patient confidentiality through the […]