Hysterical Psychosis: A Historical Survey

ISBN-13: 9781138510722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 283 str.

Katrien Libbrecht

Opis

Hysteria as a neurosis seems to have disappeared altogether from the psychiatric manuals; but there are articles here and there, particularly in the United States and France, which advocate the existence of hysteria as a psychosis

Spis treści

Part One: The Turn of the Century:Recognition of Hysterical Madness, Heyday of the Hysterical Fit; Introduction; 1: The Psychiatric Coordinates; 2: The School of the Salpêtrière Charcot; 3: German Neurological Studies Freud; 4: Congresses on Hysteria; Part Two: The Interbellum:Hysteria in the Margin, Schizophrenia as a Refuge of Hysterical Madness; Introduction; 5: The War Neuroses Twilight States Confusion; 6: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Schizophrenia; 7: The German Advance Claude’s Schizoses; 8: General Developments; Part Three The 1950s to the Present: The Marginal Psychotic Existence of Hysterical Madness, The Numerical Diaspora of Hysteria; Introduction; 9: The Vanishing Act of Hysteria in the Psychiatric Field; 10: Hysteria Re-enters Psychiatry as a Distinct Psychosis; 11: Psychoanalysis, too, Renounces Hysteria; Conclusion

O autorze

Katrien Libbrecht