From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the
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Shorter shows how psychosomatic symptoms are related to cultural conditions. In the repressive Victorian period, such symptoms were generally hysteria and paralysis. In the permissive society, they took the form of enervation and languor.
Author: Edward Shorter
Format: Hardback, 400 pages, 160mm x 240mm, 768 g
Published: 1992, Simon & Schuster, United States
Genre: Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology: Professional
Shorter shows how psychosomatic symptoms are related to cultural conditions. In the repressive Victorian period, such symptoms were generally hysteria and paralysis. In the permissive society, they took the form of enervation and languor.