hysteria

"Follows the early career of Sigmund Freud, from his training in neurological research to his establishment of a therapeutic practice in Vienna [discussing] the psychoanalyst's earliest clinical experiences, his studies alongside Charcot at La Salp?tri?re and his interest in the work of his friend and colleague Joseph Brueuer."--Back cover.

Traces the medical and social history of hysteria, at varoious times considered a biologically-based women's disorder or a problem of weak men in wartime, as well as some of the treatments that were devised for the condition, which is no longer recognized as a separate psychiatric disorder.