Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Effect of Sibling Relationships on the Human Condition
- ISBN-10
- 0713992301
- ISBN-13
- 9780713992304
- Category
- Brothers and sisters
- Pages
- 380
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Allan Lane
- Author
- Juliet Mitchell
Description
It has become fashionable in the West to argue that hysteria has disappeared, indeed to challenge the notion that it ever existed. Hysteria's symptoms, first recorded by Hippocratic doctors in the fifth century B.C., were attributed to supernatural causes in the Middle Ages. The medicalization of hysteria in the 17th century moved its site from the womb to the brain, allowing it to be equally available as a diagnosis for men. In the 19th century, when hysteria appeared to be epidemic, Jean-Jacques Charcot photographed and classified hysterical patients and the symptoms were nicknamed mysteria. But what exactly is hysteria, and is it still with us? do we need the term to describe the consequences of experiences that are fundamental to the human condition in all societies and without which we lose an understanding of those experiences, for both women and men?
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