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Hysteria Beyond Freud (Paperback)
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Hysteria Beyond Freud (Paperback)
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"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? Â 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. Â 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.
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