Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Brain-Centered Approach (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030591809)

Introduction

Chapter 1. Overview of Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Pain

Brain flaws

Fear

Anxiety

Dizziness

Stress

Fatigue

Diagnostic uncertainty

Chapter 2. Early ideas on hysteria

Hysteria and female sexuality

Bizarre behaviors

Hysteria and the occult

Nerves

Hysteria, a nervous disorder

Early treatments of hysteria

Spinal irritation and the spinal reflex theory

The attack on the female genitalia

Hysteria and fasting girls

Chapter 3. The Golden age of Hysteria

Briquet's syndrome

Charcot and his hysterical circus

Hysteria and hypnosis

Borderlands of hypnosis

Nature or nurture

Ideas about hysteria evolve

Neurasthenia and neurosis

S Weir Mitchell and the Civil War

The Rest Cure

S Weir Mitchell, the enigma

Nerve doctors

Evolution and the brain

Chapter 4. Psychosomatic illness in the 20th Century

Freud, the earl

Author: Robert W. Baloh
ISBN-10: 3030591808
ISBN-13: 9783030591809
Publisher: Copernicus Books
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2020
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d