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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-03 - Publisher: Read Books Ltd
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Language: en
Pages: 364
Pages: 364
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-14 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a lon
Language: en
Pages: 232
Pages: 232
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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 social
Language: en
Pages: 387
Pages: 387
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-01 - Publisher: A&C Black
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. Ther
Language: en
Pages: 376
Pages: 376
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-18 - Publisher: Routledge
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