Perspectives on "hysteria"

Perspectives on
Title Perspectives on "hysteria" PDF eBook
Author Phillip Richard Slavney
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Pages 240
Release 1990
Genre Psychology
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Hysteria: The Rise of an Enigma

Hysteria: The Rise of an Enigma
Title Hysteria: The Rise of an Enigma PDF eBook
Author J. Bogousslavsky
Publisher Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Pages 222
Release 2014-06-23
Genre Medical
ISBN 3318026476

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Hysteria is probably the condition which best illustrates the tight connection between neurology and psychiatry. While it has been known since antiquity, its renewed studies during the 19th century were mainly due to the work of Jean-Martin Charcot and his school in Paris. This publication focuses on these early developments, in which immediate followers of Charcot, including Babinski, Freud, Janet, Richer, and Gilles de la Tourette were involved. Hysteria is commonly considered as a condition that often leads to spectacular manifestations (e.g. convulsions, palsies), although both structural and functional imaging data confirm the absence of consistent and reproducible structural lesions. While numerous hypotheses have tried to explain the occurrence of this striking phenomenon, the precise nosology and pathophysiology of hysteria remain elusive. This volume offers an enthralling and informative read for neurologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, as well as for general physicians, historians, and everyone interested in the developments of one of the most intriguing conditions in medicine.

The Cassandra Complex : Living with Disbelief : a Modern Perspective on Hysteria

The Cassandra Complex : Living with Disbelief : a Modern Perspective on Hysteria
Title The Cassandra Complex : Living with Disbelief : a Modern Perspective on Hysteria PDF eBook
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Release 2016
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Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Hysteria

Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Hysteria
Title Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Hysteria PDF eBook
Author Peter Halligan
Publisher
Pages 376
Release 2001
Genre Medical
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Patients with striking symptoms which have no discernible physical cause are typically labelled as suffering from hysterical conversion. This book covers aspects neglected by previous works on this controversial condition, moving away from traditional historico-sociological accounts towards neuroscientific theories about the causes and categorization of hysteria. Importantly, it also covers medico-legal aspects, prognosis, treatment and rehabilitation.

Hysteria

Hysteria
Title Hysteria PDF eBook
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Pages 386
Release 1991
Genre Hysteria
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Approaching Hysteria

Approaching Hysteria
Title Approaching Hysteria PDF eBook
Author Mark S. Micale
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 344
Release 2019-01-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0691194483

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Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salong women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms. In this fascnating and authoritative book, Mark Micale surveys the range of past and present readings of hysteria by intellectual historians; historians of science and medicine; scholars in gender studies, art history, and literature; and psychoanalysts, psychiatriasts, clinical psychologists, and neurologists. In so doing, he explores numerous questions raised by this evergrowing body of literature: Why, in recent years, has the history of hysterical disorders carried such resonance for commentators in the sciences and humanities? What can we learn form the textual traditions of hysteria about writing the history of disease in general? What is the broader cultural meaning of the new hysteria studies? In the second half of the book, Micale discusses the many historical "cultures of hysteria." He reconstructs in detail the past usages of the hysteria concept as a powerful, descriptive trope in various nonmedical domains, including poetry, fiction, theater, social thought, political criticism, and the arts His book is a pioneering attempt to write the historical phenomenology of disease in an age preoccupied with health, and a prescriptive remedy for writing histories of disease in the future. Mark S. Micale is Assistant Professor of History at Yale. He is the editor of Beyond the Unconscious: Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger (Princeton). Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Creating Hysteria

Creating Hysteria
Title Creating Hysteria PDF eBook
Author Joan Acocella
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Pages 232
Release 1999-08-27
Genre Medical
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Asked to search within themselves for hidden personalities, they came up with entire squadrons: children, harlots, angels, devils."--BOOK JACKET. "This book describes how a group of reckless therapists used hypnosis, drugs, and sheer persuasion to mold their patients' symptoms into multiple personality disorder."--BOOK JACKET.