Hysteria Beyond Freud

  INTRODUCTION—  THE DESTINIES OF HYSTERIA

 collapse sectionPART I—  HISTORICAL
 collapse sectionOne—  Once upon a Text:  Hysteria from Hippocrates
 Labels and Origins: a Name Without a Disease?
 Definitions: the Textual Tradition
 Hippocratic Hysteria: the Womb and Its Destinations
 Plato and Aretaeus: the Wild Womb?
 Stifling and Suffocation: the Development of the Textual Tradition
 Galen and His Influence: Winners and Losers in the Textual Tradition
 collapse sectionFurther Contributions to the Tradition
 The Greek East
 The Latin West
 The Arab World
 The Meeting of Three Worlds
 Tradition or Truth?
 Acknowledgments
 collapse sectionTwo—  "A Strange Pathology":  Hysteria in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
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 collapse sectionPART II—  THEMATIC
 collapse sectionThree—  The Body and the Mind, The Doctor and the Patient:  Negotiating Hysteria
 Diseases
 Hysteria/Mysteria
 Historiography
 Mind and Body: Medical Materialism and Hegemonic Idealism
 Continuities: Toward Nineteenth-Century Nervousness
 Change: Women, Body, and Scientific Medicine
 Problem Women: Gynecology and Hysteria
 Neurology and Hysteria
 Hysteria, Psychiatry, and the Clinical Encounter
 Conclusion
 Four—  Hysteria, Feminism, and Gender
 collapse sectionFive—  The Image of the Hysteric
 The Function of the "Real" Image of the Hysteric in Defining the Nature of Hysteria
 Toward a Theory of "Realistic Representation" in Nineteenth-Century Thought
 Medical and Aesthetic Models for the Representation of the Hysteric
 Creating a Composite Image of the Hysteric
 Hysteria, Race, and Gender

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 INTRODUCTION— THE DESTINIES OF HYSTERIA
 One— Once upon a Text: Hysteria from Hippocrates
 Two— "A Strange Pathology": Hysteria in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800
 Three— The Body and the Mind, The Doctor and the Patient: Negotiating Hysteria
 Four— Hysteria, Feminism, and Gender
 Five— The Image of the Hysteric
  CONTRIBUTORS
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