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Method in the Madness: Hysteria and the Will to Power [PDF]
Social Sciences, 2016 At the very start of a chapter on hysteria in her book From Mastery to Analysis: Theories of Gender in Psychoanalytic Feminism, Patricia Elliot cites Nietzsche’s “truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions”.
Matthew Gildersleeve
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Se-duction is not sex-duction: Desexualizing and de-feminizing hysteria
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 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.
Milena Mancini +2 more
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Hysteria to conversion disorders: Babinski's contributions [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2014 The main objective of this paper is to present the importance of hysteria on Babinski's oeuvre, and the conceptions of pithiatism from Babinski until the one of conversion disorder.
Marleide da Mota Gomes +1 more
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Hysteria and its metamorphoses [PDF]
Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental, 2012 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the historical evolution of hysteria and its possible psychopathological ramifications in today’s diagnostic classifications. Method: Clinical and historical problematization contrasting classical and contemporary references on ...
Lazslo Antônio Ávila +1 more
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Cogent Arts and Humanities, 2018 This article examines how the narrator in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria (hereafter designated as W/H) deploys spectres of hysteria as a novelistic phantasmagoria to challenge the subject in the fictive post-apartheid South Africa ...
Ibrahim Wachira +2 more
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Imaging hypnotic paralysis: implications for conversion hysteria
Lancet, The, 2000 In a single case study with positron emission tomography (PET) functional imaging, hypnotic paralysis activated similar brain areas to those in conversion hysteria, supporting the view that hypnosis and hysteria might share common neurophysiological ...
Peter W Halligan +2 more
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Novelty in BiomedicineBackground: Rabies is an acute and fatal zoonotic viral disease that affects warm-blooded mammals. This disease is usually transmitted between humans and other animals through bites, scratches, or saliva from infected animals.
Nazanin Shabansalmani +4 more
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Hysteria, Hermeneutical Injustice and Conceptual Engineering [PDF]
Social EpistemologyIn this paper, we look at what Miranda Fricker (2007) calls “hermeneutical injustice” as it arises in the medical context. By drawing on the history of hysteria, I argue that the concept of hysteria has been held in place by power structures affected by ...
Annalisa Coliva
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, 2020 "We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender liberation, Black Lives Matter ...
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Hysteria, possession states and pseudoseizures
Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry, 2022 Hysteria has been described from biblical times. It has changed its name many times over the years. Possession states and pseudoseizures are subtypes of hysteria. With the two major diagnostic classifications, the DSM 5 and the ICD 10 separating hysteria
R. Hanwella
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