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Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Aimed at researchers and clinicians, this journal of neurology balances studies in neurological science with practical clinical articles.
Brain
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Aimed at researchers and clinicians, this journal of neurology balances studies in neurological science with practical clinical articles.
The Practitioner
Author: Invention of Hysteria
Author: Georges Didi-HubermanPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262541807
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria. In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria's specific form. These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere. As Didi-Huberman shows, these photographs were far from simply objective documentation. The subjects were required to portray their hysterical "type"—they performed their own hysteria. Bribed by the special status they enjoyed in the purgatory of experimentation and threatened with transfer back to the inferno of the incurables, the women patiently posed for the photographs and submitted to presentations of hysterical attacks before the crowds that gathered for Charcot's "Tuesday Lectures." Charcot did not stop at voyeuristic observation. Through techniques such as hypnosis, electroshock therapy, and genital manipulation, he instigated the hysterical symptoms in his patients, eventually giving rise to hatred and resistance on their part. Didi-Huberman follows this path from complicity to antipathy in one of Charcot's favorite "cases," that of Augustine, whose image crops up again and again in the Iconographie. Augustine's virtuosic performance of hysteria ultimately became one of self-sacrifice, seen in pictures of ecstasy, crucifixion, and silent cries.
The Lancet
Author: Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
Author: Andrew ScullPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151280682X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors' essays offer a historical analysis of the issues that continue to plague the psychiatric profession today. Topics covered include the debate over the effectiveness of institutional or community treatment, the boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility, the implementation of commitment laws, and the differences in defining and treating mental illness based on the gender of the patient.
The American Journal of Insanity
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Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
On Disorders of Digestion, Their Consequences and Treatment
Author: Thomas Lauder BruntonPublisher:
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Category : Adipose tissues
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Collection of papers including the Lettsomian lectures for 1885.
The Journal of Mental Science
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Vol. 77- includes Yearbook of the Association, 1931-
Insanity and Its Treatment
Author: George Fielding BlandfordPublisher:
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Category : Insanity
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Medical Record
Author: Ernest Abraham HartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description