PASSIVITY AS AN EGO STRATEGY Shapiro made a vital contribution in elucidating how the hysterical character is passive . Rather than referring in a vague or stereotyped way to the passivity of the hysteric , Shapiro described the purpose ...
Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture ofSuffer— ing in France, 18404970. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004. Busfield, Joan. Men, Women, and Madness: Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder.
Today, hysterical epidemics are not spread by viruses or vapors but by stories, narratives Showalter calls hystories that are created "in the interaction of troubled patients and sympathetic therapists... circulated through self-help books, ...
This is the second volume in this collection of 24 volumes of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud in English.
Studies on Hysteria