What is the perspective in Freud's case study, Dora?

Dora is composed in first-person perspective – as it is a nonfiction account, it is written by Freud himself, as Freud. Though it is presented as a “case history” of Dora’s life and symptoms, the perspective in the text is not objective in the way that a reader might expect from a case history. Rather, it is Freud’s perspective rooted in his conception of psychoanalytic method, which is a process of analyzing the behavior and symptoms of the patient.