From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History
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DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2018.1505466
Abstract: Feminist studies of medicine in history, rhetoric, and other humanities disciplines have noted that male medical professionals disproportionately focused their gaze on women’s bodies yet argued that the array of symptoms women described were mysterious,… read more here.
Keywords: medicine; hysteria hormones; hysteria; hormones rhetorical ... See more keywords
On the scientific prospects for Freud’s theory of hysteria
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DOI: 10.1080/15294145.2018.1544851
Abstract: ABSTRACT Hysteria (or conversion disorder) is once again attracting concerted scientific attention. This paper looks at the extent to which recent scientific research supports Freud’s theory of hysteria, which posits that repressed impulses are converted… read more here.
Keywords: empirical studies; hysteria; theory hysteria; freud theory ... See more keywords
Anxious Projections: Mass Hysteria and the Problem of Interpretation.
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DOI: 10.1111/maq.70007
Abstract: Stories of “mass hysteria” among teenage girls have often graced the headlines of Nepal's local and national newspapers, creating a public spectacle of a strange and mysterious form of affliction. Treatments include both shamanic rituals… read more here.
Keywords: mass hysteria; hysteria problem; anxious projections; hysteria ... See more keywords
Se-duction is not sex-duction: Desexualizing and de-feminizing hysteria
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.963117
Abstract: The psychopathological analysis of hysteria is a victim of narrow conceptualizations. Among these is the inscription of hysteria in the feminine sphere, about body and sexuality, which incentivized conceptual reductionism. Hysteria has been mainly considered… read more here.
Keywords: world; hysteria; duction; duction sex ... See more keywords