The story of hysteria is a curious one, for it persists as an illness for centuries before disappearing.
After stabbing and killing her boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Mallory, who has no memory of the event, is sent away to a boarding school to escape the gossip and threats, but someone or something is following her.
This volume offers an enthralling and informative read for neurologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, as well as for general physicians, historians, and everyone interested in the developments of one of the most intriguing conditions ...
In the second, even more spectacular phase that is sometimes called 'clownism', the patient twists their body and makes other grands mouvements such as the well-known arc-en-ciel, in which the body becomes as bent as a hoop, ...
In the last half-century we have witnessed a dramatic expansion of American corporate power into every corner of the world, accompanied by an equally awesome growth in U.S. military power....
Johnson's celebrated play raises intriguing questions about Freud's radical revision of his theories of hysteria.