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The Major Symptoms of Hysteria

The Major Symptoms of Hysteria

by Pierre JANET (1859 - 1947)

In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspective on the various forms of hysteria. The syndromes include generalised amnesic states and conversion disorders, and show Janet's highly influential views regarding the fundamental role of dissociation. The lectures provide an insight into the development of this area of psychiatry out of the neurological field of the nineteenth century, with Janet dropping some famous names from the history of medicine. ( Peter Tucker)


Lecture 1: The Problem of Hysteria

Lecture 10: The Troubles of Speech

Lecture 11: The Disturbances of Alimentation

Lecture 12: The Tics of Respiration and Alimentation

Lecture 13: The Hysterical Stigmata - Suggestibility

Lecture 14: The Hysterical Stigmata - the Retraction of the Field of Consciousness - the Common Stigmata

Lecture 15: General Definitions

Lecture 2: Monoideic Somnambulisms

Lecture 3: Fugues and Polyideic Somnambulisms

Lecture 4: Double Personalities

Lecture 5: Convulsive Attacks, Fits of Sleep, Artificial Somnambulisms

Lecture 6: Motor Agitations - Contractures

Lecture 7: Paralyses - Diagnosis

Lecture 8: The Psychological Conception of Paralyses and Anesthesias

Lecture 9: The Troubles of Vision

Prefatory note