"I had a number of sessions in 1962 with Anna Freud, in that famous house in Maresfield Gardens, who said as much about her father, as did Dr. Willi Hofer and Dr. William Gillespie, both famous London shrinks who were his colleagues in Vienna and London. Hofer was the most voluble to me on the subject; his accent was so thick that he sounded like Sid Caesar in one of his skits. With a twinkle in his eye, he told me that Freud put patients on the couch because he was shy and didn’t want to have to look at them.""I had a number of sessions in 1962 with Anna Freud, in that famous house in Maresfield Gardens, who said as much about her father, as did Dr. Willi Hofer and Dr. William Gillespie, both famous London shrinks who were his colleagues in Vienna and London. Hofer was the most voluble to me on the subject; his accent was so thick that he sounded like Sid Caesar in one of his skits. With a twinkle in his eye, he told me that Freud put patients on the couch because he was shy and didn’t want to have to look at them."