Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming HysteriaThis worthy successor to Psychoanalysis and Feminism is both a defense of the long-dismissed diagnosis of hysteria as a centerpiece of the human condition and a plea for a new understanding of the influence of sibling and peer relationships. Juliet Mitchell argues that, because it our first social relationship, the sibling relationship is crucial to development, and that it is a critical failure of psychoanalysis and other psychological theories of development to obscure and ignore the importance of siblings and peers.In Mad Men and Medusas Mitchell traces the history of hysteria from the Greek "wandering womb" to modern-day psychiatric diagnoses, arguing that we need to reclaim hysteria to understand how distress and trauma express themselves in different societies and different times. Using fascinating examples from anthropology, Freud's case studies, literature, and her own clinical practice, Mitchell convincingly demonstrates that while hysteria may have disappeared as a disease, it is still a critical factor in understanding psychological development through the life cycle. |
Contents
A Fragment of a Case | 43 |
A Fragment of a Case of Hysteria | 82 |
Where Has All the Hysteria Gone? | 109 |
Sexuality Death and Reproduction | 134 |
From Hysteria to Motherhood | 159 |
Emptiness and Possession | 203 |
The Hysterical | 246 |
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The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology Carla Willig,Wendy Stainton-Rogers No preview available - 2007 |
Age Rage and Going Gently: Stories of the Senescent Subject in Twentieth ... Oliver Davis No preview available - 2006 |