How much was Freud paid per "session"?

I’m pretty sure a “session” was not the 45-minute “I’m afraid our time is up”-kind of thing. Hours long? Package deal for weeks and weeks?

If anyone could translate to 2011 dollars, with cost-of-living adjustments, that would be great.

I hereby alot a maximum of four cocaine jokes. :wink:

One source says:

Different patients, different fees: As a general rule, Americans had to pay more than fellow Europeans.

From time to time, he’d take on a patient for free, too.

… Well, this is irritating. I just went to look up the exact sums in Roazen’s Freud biography when I realized I just returned it to the library last week!

If I remember correctly, though, it was something like 10-15 dollars for other Europeans, but 25-30 dollars for Americans.

I’ll add that in certain cases he gave money to his patients. When Bruno Goetz – later a famous poet and translator, but then just a poor, hungry, desperate student – admitted that he hadn’t had a steak in four full weeks, Freud handed him an envelope containing “200 crowns.” (No clue how much that would be in modern currency, though.)