Description
Introduction
Chapter 1. Overview of Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Pain
Brain flaws
Fear
Anxiety
Dizziness
Stress
Fatigue
Diagnostic uncertainty
Chapter 2. Early ideas on hysteria
Hysteria and female sexuality
Bizarre behaviors
Hysteria and the occult
Nerves
Hysteria, a nervous disorder
Early treatments of hysteria
Spinal irritation and the spinal reflex theory
The attack on the female genitalia
Hysteria and fasting girls
Chapter 3. The Golden age of Hysteria
Briquet's syndrome
Charcot and his hysterical circus
Hysteria and hypnosis
Borderlands of hypnosis
Nature or nurture
Ideas about hysteria evolve
Neurasthenia and neurosis
AmericanitisS Weir Mitchell and the Civil War
The Rest Cure
S Weir Mitchell, the enigma
Nerve doctors
Evolution and the brain
Chapter 4. Psychosomatic illness in the 20th Century
Freud, the earl
Author: Robert W. Baloh
Publisher: Copernicus Books
Published: 12/02/2020
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9783030591809
ISBN10: 3030591808
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Psychiatry | General
- Medical | Neurology
About the Author
Robert W. Baloh MD
Distinguished Professor of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA