Author: Morton PrincePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Development and Genealogy of the Misses Beauchamp
Proceedings
Author: Society for Psychical ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research
Author: Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
List of members in v.1-19, 21, 24-
Trauma
Author: Ruth LeysPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226477541
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Psychic trauma is one of the most frequently invoked ideas in the behavioral sciences and the humanities today. Yet bitter disputes have marked the discussion of trauma ever since it first became an issue in the 1870s, growing even more heated in recent years following official recognition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In a book that is bound to ignite controversy, Ruth Leys investigates the history of the concept of trauma. She explores the emergence of multiple personality disorder, Freud's approaches to trauma, medical responses to shellshock and combat fatigue, Sándor Ferenczi's revisions of psychoanalysis, and the mutually reinforcing, often problematic work of certain contemporary neurobiological and postmodernist theorists. Leys argues that the concept of trauma has always been fundamentally unstable, oscillating uncontrollably between two competing models, each of which tends at its limit to collapse into the other. A powerfully argued work of intellectual history, Trauma will rewrite the terms of future discussion of its subject.
The Yearbook of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Psychotherapy and Multiple Personality
Author: Morton PrincePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674722255
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Morton Prince, a debonair Boston neurologist, established the modern American tradition of psychopathology and psychotherapy in the closing decade of the nineteenth century. Born in 1854, two years before Sigmund Freud and five years before Pierre Janet, he criticized and adapted their work to his own particular interests, which were primarily the exploration of hypnosis, multiple personality, and the unconscious. Prince informally headed the most sophisticated group of psychopathologists in the English-speaking world, which flourished in Boston and Cambridge beginning around 1890. He founded the Journal of Abnormal Psychology in 1906 and the American Psychopathological Association in 1910. The essays in this volume have been chosen by Nathan G. Hale, Jr., to illustrate four major stages in Prince's career. The first, from 1885 to 1898, saw his development of a dynamic psychotherapy, based on the existence of unconscious mental processes. During the second period, from 1898 through 1911, he made intensive studies of multiple personality. In the third, from 1909 through 1924, he confronted psychoanalysis and behaviorism. During the last period, from about 1914 through 1927, he published his final views of the unconscious, hypnotism, and personality. Morton Prince's observations remain important partly because they are so richly detailed, partly because of their dramatic and human interest, but chiefly because they shed light on phenomena that still defy final explanation.
Official Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: A Layman's Handbook of Medicine
Author: Richard Clarke CabotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Index to the Periodicals of 1890-1902
Author: The Review of reviewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Sympathetic Medium
Author: Jill GalvanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801457386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The nineteenth century saw not only the emergence of the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter but also a fascination with séances and occult practices like automatic writing as a means for contacting the dead. Like the new technologies, modern spiritualism promised to link people separated by space or circumstance; and like them as well, it depended on the presence of a human medium to convey these conversations. Whether electrical or otherworldly, these communications were remarkably often conducted—in offices, at telegraph stations and telephone switchboards, and in séance parlors—by women. In The Sympathetic Medium, Jill Galvan offers a richly nuanced and culturally grounded analysis of the rise of the female medium in Great Britain and the United States during the Victorian era and through the turn of the century. Examining a wide variety of fictional explorations of feminine channeling (in both the technological and supernatural realms) by such authors as Henry James, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, and George Du Maurier, Galvan argues that women were often chosen for that role, or assumed it themselves, because they made at-a-distance dialogues seem more intimate, less mediated. Two allegedly feminine traits, sympathy and a susceptibility to automatism, enabled women to disappear into their roles as message-carriers.Anchoring her literary analysis in discussions of social, economic, and scientific culture, Galvan finds that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century feminization of mediated communication reveals the challenges that the new networked culture presented to prevailing ideas of gender, dialogue, privacy, and the relationship between body and self.