"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.
| ISBN: | 9780520301979 |
| Publication date: | 25th March 2022 |
| Author: | Sander L Gilman, Helen King, Roy Porter, G S Rousseau, Elaine Showalter |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 502 pages |
| Series: | UC Press Voices Revived |
| Genres: |
Gender studies, gender groups Psychology |
"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.
Hysteria Beyond Freud features in the following genres: Gender studies, gender groups, Psychology
Hysteria Beyond Freud is available in Hardback, Paperback
Hysteria Beyond Freud was written by Sander L Gilman, Helen King, Roy Porter, G S Rousseau, Elaine Showalter and published by University of California Press
Hysteria Beyond Freud has 502 pages
Yes it is part of UC Press Voices Revived series
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