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The Mental State of Hystericals : a study of mental stigmata and mental accidents / Pierre Janet, Caroline Rollin Corson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Janet, Pierre, 1859-1947., author.
- Corson, Caroline Rollin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hysteria.
- Hysteria--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 535 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1901.
- Summary:
- This work combines a discussion of hysteria as a mental illness with a philosophical view to try and understand the illness from multiple perspectives.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Mental stigmata. Anaesthesias
- Amnesias
- Abulias
- The motor disturbances
- Modifications of the character
- pt. 2. Mental accidents. Suggestion and subconscious acts
- Fixed ideas
- Attacks
- Somnambulisms
- Deliriums
- Hysteria from a psychological point of view.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (G. P. Putnam's Sons, viewed May 31, 2023).
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