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| | Freud's Couch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Freud's couch, upon which his patients would comfortably recline during psychoanalytic sessions, was normally covered by an oriental rug throw. |
 | | The couch is rather short, so that the patient would not lie horizontally, but with the head quite high, supported by several cushions and pillows. |
 | | According to Freud's wife Martha, in an interview with Princess Marie Bonaparte in 1938, the couch was given to Freud by a grateful patient, a Madame Benvenisti, in about 1890. |
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