Hysteria and its metamorphoses

Approaching hysteria: disease and its interpretations

the particular social configuration of the psychological experiment will apply beyond its boundaries. Partially for these reasons, the generation of stable knowledge claims with broad-scale implications, Danziger suggests, has proven extraordinarily problematic for psychology as a discipline. In addition to historicizing and contextualizing the notion of the subject, two other features of Const...

The knotted subject: hysteria and its discontents

Bronfen's menacing "knot" is the perennial paradox of mind and body, health and illness, the corporal body and its representations, all of whose antinomies have been annexed to hysteria in our century. 'Hysteria and its discontents', as her Freudian subtitle suggests: the medical malady, human condition, and cultural discourse for which all categories established have been adjudged inadequate. ...

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(A histeria e as suas metamorfoses)Objetivo: Promover um pensamento investigativo acerca da evolução histórica dahisteria e de suas eventuais ramificações psicopatológicas nas classificações diagnósti-cas atuais. Método: Problematização histórica e clínica a partir do contraponto entrereferências clássicas e contemporâneas sobre o assunto. Conclusão: O aumento da inci-dência...

Hysteria, belief, and magic.

(a) A courageous OP refers a boy aged eight who has †̃¿ gone off his legs' that morning. The OP says he knows it is hysterical but that he cannot stop it. The boy is brought by car. A kind psychiatrist negotiates through the window the need for the boy to mount the steps to come and talk. The boy comes. He talks about how his estranged father had promised first a trip to the cup final and then...

Suggestibility and Hysteria.