During his studies on hysteria, Freud, exploring the sexual lives of his patients, came across horrible stories of abuse, violence, incest, too early sexual experiences, and turned the other way. Hysteria, in fact, is so common among women in Freud’s society that if his theories were correct it would mean admitting that what he called “perverse acts against children” were endemic not only among the working classes of Paris, but also among the upper class of Vienna. An idea so unacceptable that Freud decides that those narratives of abuse are nothing more than the fruit of women’s sexual fantasies. One of the most authoritative psychiatrists of our time, one of the greatest experts of trauma, Judith Lewis Herman, tells us about it, explaining: “From that moment on, the alliance between patients and doctors in the study of hysteria was over. For the entire following century, dominant psychological theory denied the reality of sexual abuse.” Patriarchy has the upper hand over science and research. And even today the victims of sexual violence are still not believed.