Biography

Kate Novack is an Emmy-nominated writer, director and producer of documentary films. Her film Hysterical Girl (The New York Times Op-Docs) revisits the only major case history that Sigmund Freud published of a female patient and considers the corrosive legacy of his theory of hysteria more than 100 years later. The film was shortlisted for an Academy Award and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing. New Yorker critic Richard Brody described it as "extraordinary. strikes at the very foundations of the field of psychology, and the historical failure to believe victims which has not yet been righted.