Available Formats
Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations
By (Author) Mark S. Micale
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
26th March 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History of ideas
Neurology and clinical neurophysiology
Behaviourism, Behavioural theory
Psychiatry
616.8524009
Hardback
344
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
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. I