Short Takes

This excellent history of madness in women - its definition, diagnosis, and treatment - begins with erotic descriptions of religious ecstasies and demonic possessions; proceeds through the introduction of asylums for the insane, the treatment of nerves and hysteria, the fashion for hypnosis, the glamour of psychoanalysis, the trends in eati...

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