Case studies show how the two physicians developed the cathartic method of psychoanalysis to treat people with emotional problems

Offers historical and epistemological analyses concerning the social definition of mental illness and condemns psychiatry for intervening in and passing judgment on normal human behavioral processes

Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: Body and Language in Psychoanalysis

Product Description: A fine hardcover copy. Tight binding. Lightly aged, but otherwise clean, unmarked pages. Fine jacket with light wear to top edge. NOT ex-library. Indexed. 220pg. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Psychology; ISBN: 0801839610...read more

Product Description: Anna O. was the cornerstone in the formation of Freud's discoveries and theories - yet he never saw her. He only heard about her in clinical detail from a colleague and friend who had treated and perhaps "cured" her. Grasping the implication of Breuer's revolutionary discovery about the human mind, Freud persuaded Breuer to collaborate with him in the first book about psychoanalysis, "Studies on Hysteria", containing Breuer's famous essay on Anna O...read more

Product Description: Hysteria -- France -- History. Women -- Mental health -- France -- History.

A fascinating case study that reads like a detective novel, pulling readers deep into the twisted world and dark mental corners of one of Sigmund Freud’s most intriguing psychological patients.An intelligent but troubled eighteen-year-old girl to whom Freud gives the pseudonym “Dora” is at the center of this captivating case study. Freud’s analysis focuses on Dora, however she is surrounded by an emotionally disturbed cast of characters that thicken the psychological intrigue. As Dora falls into the paralysis of psychological hysteria, Freud uses all of his analytical genius and literary skill to explore Dora’s inner life and explain the cause of her neuroses. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, well-known as a Freud scholar and editor of Freud's works, has long advocated a return to his original texts in order to comprehend fully the power and innovative force of his theories. In Early Freud and Late Freud she examines the earliest psychoanalytic book, Studies on Hysteria, which Freud wrote together with Breuer, and Moses and Monotheism, Freud's last book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Nasio, Juan-David (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study describes the creative process of generating the ensemble performance work, "Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows", including the use of Labanotation and group improvisations in decoding the body language of 19th-century hysterics at the Salpetriere, with interpolations from Freud's case histories...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Hysteria has disappeared from contemporary culture only insofar as it has been subjected to a repression through the popular diagnosis of 'borderline personality disorder'.In Hysteria the distinguished psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversion; over-identification with the other - into the hysteric form...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A century after it was written, Breuer and Freudís Studies on Hysteria continues to challenge. In Storms in Her Head, many of todayís most renowned psychoanalysts and cultural theorists revisit the cases it contains, reflecting on how six suffering women continue to engage us with problems of theory and practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This worthy successor to Juliet Mitchell's pathbreaking Psychoanalysis and Feminism is both a defense of the long-dismissed diagnosis of hysteria as a centerpiece of the human condition and a plea for a new understanding of the influence of sibling and peer relationships...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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