Description - The Nature of Hysteria by Niel Micklem
Hysteria was a frequently diagnosed illness in the West through the 19th and much of the 20th century. Today the medical profession has virtually abandoned the diagnosis altogether. However, this does not mean that hysteria has ceased to exist. In this work, Neil Micklem argues that the disease has merely shifted into other personal and collective forms. He traces the history of hysteria from ancient Egyptian times to the present and examines its mythic background. He also describes the involvement of sexuality in the clinical manifestations of hysteria to witchcraft, and various collective manifestations of hysteria in the form of sexual permissiveness and unisexual behaviour. Arguing that hysteria is much more than an illness, Neil Micklem suggests that the denial of hysteria in individual patients has coincided with the creation of an increasingly hysterical society.
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