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Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations
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Hardcover
from Princeton Univ Pr (January 1, 1995)
9780691037172 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $62.50
About: Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salon women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms.
About: Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salon women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms.