Hysteria complicated by ecstasy : the case of Nanette Leroux / Jan Goldstein.

By:

Goldstein, Jan, 1946-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781400833719
140083371X
1299906877
9781299906877

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

616.8524 22

LOC classification:

RC532 .H65 2011eb

NLM classification:

2009 L-267
WM 11 GF7

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Summary: Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism, as hypnosis was then called. Jan Goldstein translates, and provides a substantial introduct.

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Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism, as hypnosis was then called. Jan Goldstein translates, and provides a substantial introduct.