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Author : Joseph Breuer
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781447486053

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Studies in Hysteria by Joseph Breuer Pdf

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 their methods of psychoanalytic treatment. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of psychology. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Sabine Arnaud
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226275543

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On Hysteria by Sabine Arnaud Pdf

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 our understanding of how the role and status of medicine became established in society. In the process she uncovers new insights in the history of medicine. Focusing on a period largely ignored by scholarship, she shows that hysteria was not, in fact, first seen as female malady and that discussions of convulsions in a religious context made up only a very small part of writings on hysteria. Widely treated in medical contexts, hysteria was also a common reference in literature, public political debates, and even philosophy. With careful attention to genres and writing strategies, webs of citation, and circulation, Arnaud provides a history of medicine as a history of knowledge in the making, knowledge that did not build linearly but through misinterpretation, creative citation, and strategic deployment.

Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199692989

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Hysteria by Andrew Scull Pdf

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 came to be strongly associated with women, showing the shifts in social, cultural, and medical perceptions through history.

Author : Charles Melman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000454765

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Studies on Hysteria Revisited by Charles Melman Pdf

Steeped in Lacanian theory, this book is the first of its kind to present a longitudinal approach to the study of hysteria. In these 21 seminars Dr Melman leads us from the first records of hysteria to Freud’s major discovery of the principal concepts of trauma, incompatibility, repression and the unconscious. Peppered with invaluable clinical examples, the author guides readers through difficult concepts as he links hysteria to the birth of psychoanalysis itself, and demonstrates how the reader may become implicated in this discourse. Capturing Melman’s indomitable spirit, Studies on Hysteria Revisited will be an important read for graduate students, clinicians, and those in psychoanalytic formation.

Author : George Tate (M.R.C.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600005817

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A treatise on hysteria by George Tate (M.R.C.S.) Pdf

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783989886933

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Studies on Hysteria: A New Translation by Sigmund Freud Pdf

A new illustrated translation from the original German manuscript of Freud's first major publication, his 1895 "Studies on Hysteria" ("Studien über Hysterie") along with his related essay "On the Psychic Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena" ("über den psychischen Mechanismus hysterischer Phänomene") which summarizes this work. These were originally published separately, and later combined. This work lays the foundation of his life's work in clinical psychotherapy and started his academic career. This work is considered the first treatise on classical psychoanalysis ever published. This edition includes an Afterword by the translator on the philosophic differences between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, a glossary of Freudian Psychological terminology, a timeline of Freud’s life & works and other supplemental materials and illustrations. This is Volume I in the 2023 Complete Works of Sigmund Freud by NL Press. This new translation of Freud's collected works contains works which have never been translated into until now.

Author : J. Bogousslavsky
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783318026474

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Hysteria: The Rise of an Enigma by J. Bogousslavsky Pdf

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.

Author : Jenn Cole
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780228007203

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Hysteria in Performance by Jenn Cole Pdf

The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation, pointing not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the unstable position of her spectator. Hysteria in Performance sets out to uncover what kind of performance the hysterical attack is, as well as the nature of hysteria in and as performance as it occurred at Salpêtrière. The Salpêtrière documents undeniably show the gravity of the institutional violence committed against its female patients. Using the lenses of performance studies and performance theory, Jenn Cole expresses the overt and subtle damages done to hysterical women in Jean-Martin Charcot's hospital, drawing attention to the hysteric's resistance to these experiences: it is often simply by being herself that the hysteric points to the inherent weaknesses in these systemic modes of violence. In Hysteria in Performance, the hysteric becomes a figure who represents possibilities for ethical encounters within performance and everyday living. Revealing the fraught and exciting nature of theatrical representation, and continually drawing out the dilemmas and unexpected dynamics of witnessing the suffering of others, this groundbreaking study explores how Charcot's findings on hysteria produced a unique mixture of theatre and science that still has unexpected things to teach us.

Author : Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780520309937

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Hysteria Beyond Freud by Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter Pdf

"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Author : Georges Didi-Huberman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262541800

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Invention of Hysteria by Georges Didi-Huberman Pdf

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 studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria's specific form. These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere. As Didi-Huberman shows, these photographs were far from simply objective documentation. The subjects were required to portray their hysterical "type"—they performed their own hysteria. Bribed by the special status they enjoyed in the purgatory of experimentation and threatened with transfer back to the inferno of the incurables, the women patiently posed for the photographs and submitted to presentations of hysterical attacks before the crowds that gathered for Charcot's "Tuesday Lectures." Charcot did not stop at voyeuristic observation. Through techniques such as hypnosis, electroshock therapy, and genital manipulation, he instigated the hysterical symptoms in his patients, eventually giving rise to hatred and resistance on their part. Didi-Huberman follows this path from complicity to antipathy in one of Charcot's favorite "cases," that of Augustine, whose image crops up again and again in the Iconographie. Augustine's virtuosic performance of hysteria ultimately became one of self-sacrifice, seen in pictures of ecstasy, crucifixion, and silent cries.

Author : Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443453424

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Hysteria by Elisabeth de Mariaffi Pdf

One of The Globe and Mail’s “Favourite Books of the Year” The closer she gets to the truth, the faster it slips away. In the spring of 1945, fifteen year-old Heike circles in the mountains high above Switzerland. Pushed out the door by a worried mother, Heike and her little sister, Lena, have escaped Dresden only days ahead of the firebombs that will destroy that city, to cross a war-torn Germany on their own. But now, Lena is lost and Heike is alone, stalked by a feral dog. Eleven years later, Heike’s life looks very different: married to a prominent American psychiatrist, she’s living in idyllic upstate New York, where she’s free to wander the woods and care for her beloved four-year old son, Daniel. But despite the shiny veneer of this new life, Heike cannot shake the feeling that something is terribly wrong. On the sunniest day of the year, she’s relaxing by a pond with Daniel when a strange little girl appears out of nowhere—then eerily disappears below the surface of the water. From that moment on, nothing is ever the same again. Is the girl a ghost, or an omen of bad things to come? The closer Heike gets to the truth, the faster it slips away.

Author : Megan Miranda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780802723284

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Hysteria by Megan Miranda Pdf

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 remember the details of that night but everyone knows it was self-defense, so she isn't charged. But Mallory still feels Brian's presence in her life. Is it all in her head? Or is it something more? In desperate need of a fresh start, Mallory is sent to Monroe, a fancy prep school where no one knows her . . . or anything about her past. But the feeling follows her, as do her secrets. Then, one of her new classmates turns up dead. As suspicion falls on Mallory, she must find a way to remember the details of both deadly nights so she can prove her innocence-to herself and others.

Author : Jessica Gross
Publisher : Unnamed Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1951213122

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Hysteria by Jessica Gross Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher Bollas
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0415220335

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Hysteria by Christopher Bollas Pdf

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.

Author : Anna Furse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780429753541

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Performing Nerves by Anna Furse Pdf

Academic interest in hysteria has burgeoned in recent decades. The topic has been probed by feminist theorists, cultural studies specialists, literary scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, medical and art historians, as well as novelists. The hysteric is construed as a powerless, voiceless subject, marginalised by the forces of the patriarchy that have been the root cause of their distress, dissembling, and disablement. In Performing Nerves, Anna Furse interweaves her artistic and academic practice, drawing on her own performance texts to explore four different versions of debilitating hysteric suffering. Each text is extensively annotated, revealing the dramaturgical logic and, in turn, the historical, medical, and cultural contexts behind their protagonists' illnesses, which are argued as environmentally caused in each case. This unique, reflective insight into a playwright and director’s craft offers not only an account of how mental suffering can manifest in different contexts and times, from the 19th century to today, but also a breadth of access to the ideas that can motivate creative research. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars of theatre studies, performance studies, dramaturgy, 20th-century history, gender studies, and medical humanities.