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 * add links to Flashback (psychology)
 * fix bare URLs in Light therapy
 * somewhat redo Etiology (medicine) and maybe remove the medicine section from Etiology, because it already has a hatnote redirecting to the medicine article

Anna Dorothea Therbusch's Return to Prussia
Due to the expensiveness of life in Paris, Anna Dorothea had financial difficulties and from November 1768 until early 1769 the heavily indebted painter traveled through Brussels and the Netherlands to return to Berlin. She became the primary painter in Prussia, where she was held in high esteem. She was a portrait painter to Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great), whose newly built palace of Sanssouci she decorated with mythological scenes. She also painted portraits of eight Prussian royals for Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great). Though Anna Dorothea never visited the country, her work was appreciated Russian collectors too. She also met the group of artists surrounding Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

She died in Berlin at the age of 61, and was buried on Dorotheenstadt cemetery, whose pertaining church was destroyed in World War II. Her tomb remains intact.

Her relationship with Diderot inspired Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt to write his play Der Freigeist ("The Free Spirit"), also known as Der Libertin ("The Libertine").