Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: The New Hysteria Studies
A Short "History" of Hysteria
Ch. 1 The Major Interpretive Traditions
Intellectual Histories of Hysteria
Psychoanalytic Hysteria
Feminist Histories of Hysteria
Charcot and the History of Hysteria
Nonfeminist Social and Political Histories
Ch. 2 Theorizing Disease Historiography
The Need for Definitional Clarity
Beyond the "Historical Hysterics"
From Theory to Practice
Beyond the Freudian Historical Teleology
Toward Sociosomatic Synthesis
The "Doctor-Patient Relationship"
The De-dramatization of Hysteria
The Question of Social Class
Hysteria - The Male Malady
On the Rise and Fall of Nervous Diseases
Ch. 3 Cultures of Hysteria: Past and Present Traditions
Hysteria's Metaphorical Past
The Literary, Dramatic, and Visual Arts
Politics, History, Society
Ch. 4 Cultures of Hysteria: Future Orientations
Conceptualizing Cultural Influence
Hysteria, Gender, Culture
Hysteria and Religion Reconsidered
Conclusion: Remembering Hysteria
Bibliography
Index