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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 23,5 Mb
• Release Date : 13 October 2011

The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing. Andrew Scull gives a fascinating account of this socially constructed disease that

• Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
• File Size : 41,9 Mb
• Release Date : 23 June 2014

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

• Publisher : Unnamed Press
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 18 August 2020

HYSTERIA follows a hypersexual, self-destructive young woman who becomes convinced, over the course of 48 feverish hours, that her Brooklyn bartender is Sigmund Freud.

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 47,6 Mb
• Release Date : 14 October 2015

Hysteria formed a medical category during the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. By tracing its transformations, Sabine Arnaud reveals what was at stake in writing the diagnosis and adds to

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 46,8 Mb
• Release Date : 05 February 2013

New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda's masterful storytelling brings readers along for a ride to the edge of sanity and back again. Mallory killed her boyfriend, Brian. She can't

• Publisher : MIT Press
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 September 2004

The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria. In this classic of French cultural

• Publisher : Read Books Ltd
• File Size : 32,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 April 2013

Originally published in 1895, this early work of psychology is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains Freud and Breuer’s case studies of hysteria and

• Publisher : Psychology Press
• File Size : 36,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversions; over-identification with the other - into the hysteric form.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 50,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 September 2003

Hysteria was a frequently diagnosed illness in the West through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century. Today the medical profession has virtually abandoned the diagnosis altogether. However, this

• Publisher : A&C Black
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2012

In 1862 the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris became the epicenter of the study of hysteria, the mysterious illness then thought to affect half of all women. There, prominent neurologist