Contemporary approaches to the study of hysteria: clinical and theoretical perspectives
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780192632548
Date de publication :
5 avr. 2001
Dimensions :
24,7 x 17,3 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
832 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Patients with symptoms which have no discernible physical cause are typically labelled as suffering from hysterical conversion. This book covers aspects neglected by previous works on this condition, moving away from traditional historico-sociological accounts towards neuroscientific theories about the causes and categorization of hysteria