Hysteria Beyond Freud |
INTRODUCTION— THE DESTINIES OF HYSTERIA |
![]() | PART I— HISTORICAL |
![]() | One— 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 |
![]() | Further Contributions to the Tradition |
• | The Meeting of Three Worlds |
• | Tradition or Truth? |
• | Acknowledgments |
![]() | Two— "A Strange Pathology": Hysteria in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 |
![]() | PART II— THEMATIC |
![]() | Three— The Body and the Mind, The Doctor and the Patient: Negotiating Hysteria |
• | Four— Hysteria, Feminism, and Gender |
![]() | Five— The Image of the Hysteric |
![]() | Notes |
CONTRIBUTORS |
![]() | INDEX |