Restaging Hysteria: Mary Wigman as Writer and Dancer

Nurse as writer, writer as nurse.

'How can we know the dancer from the dance?': hyperbole in hysteria.

In this paper the author discusses histrionic or hyperbolic behaviour, which she regards as specific to a certain type of hysterical character. Histrionic hysteria she sees as a pathological organisation. With the use of two clinical examples she examines the phenomenon of hyperbole or exaggeration and suggests that they convey a picture of the patient's internal objects and his relationship to...

Wallace as writer

But despite their differences each man deeply valued the other. Darwin persuaded the British government to award Wallace a pension for services to science. Wallace dedicated his book The Malay Archipelago to Darwin, “as a token of personal esteem and friendship but also to express my deep admiration for his genius and his works.” Wallace also called his 1889 collection of evolutionary essays Da...

Repeat mediastinoscopy as a restaging procedure.

BACKGROUND Repeat cervical mediastinoscopy is a diagnostic surgical procedure for preoperative nodal staging in patients with insufficient first mediastinoscopy, with recurrent or second primary lung neoplasms, and following induction chemotherapy or chemo-/radiotherapy for locally advanced lung cancer. The aim of this study was to critically analyse indications, technical characteristics, intr...

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...