Bookvolume editor, J. Bogousslavsky.
Contents:
Before Charcot / Pearce, J.M.S
Socioeconomic background of hysteria's metamorphosis from the 18th century to World War I / Edelman, N.; Walusinski, O.
"Fin-de-siècle" epidemiology of hysteria / Luauté, J.-P.
Clinical manifestations of hysteria: an epistemological perspective or how historical dynamics illuminate current practice / Medeiros De Bustos, E.; Galli, S.; Haffen, E.; Moulin, T.
Jean-Martin Charcot and his legacy / Bogousslavsky, J.
Hypnosis and the Nancy Quarrel / Piechowski-Jozwiak, B.; Bogousslavsky, J.
The girls of La Salpêtrière / Walusinski, O.
Public medical shows / Walusinski, O.
Emma Bovary, Hedda Gabler, and Harold Brodkey would not have lived without Charcot: hysteria in novels / Kaptein, A.A.
Traces of hysteria in novels / Haan, J.; Koehler, P.J.
Sigmund Freud and hysteria: the etiology of psychoanalysis? / Bogousslavsky, J.; Dieguez, S.
Paul Sollier, Pierre Janet, and their vicinity / Walusinski, O.
Criticism of pithiatism: eulogy of Babinski / Poirier, J.; Derouesné, C.
The borderland with neurasthenia ("functional syndromes") / Paciaroni, M.; Bogousslavsky, J.
World War I psychoneuroses: hysteria goes to war / Tatu, L.; Bogousslavsky, J.
Hysteria around the world / Carota, A.; Calabrese, P.
History of physical and "moral" treatment of hysteria / Broussolle, E.; Gobert, F.; Danaila, T.; Thobois, S.; Walusinski, O.; Bogousslavsky, J.
"Hysteria" today and tomorrow / LaFrance, W.C.