These "Five Historical Cases," corresponding to the cases of five famous patients of Freud, Dora, Little Hans, Ratman, President Schreber, and Wolfman, are analyses that broke medical confidentiality and, in the form of notes for private use, evolved into open announcements, truly manuals of theory and technique.
These five major historical cases written by Freud are, by general consensus, ranked among the most important texts in psychoanalytic literature.