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The Major Symptoms of Hysteria

Gelesen von Peter Tucker

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) (8 hr 11 min)

Chapters

Prefatory note

1:46

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Lecture 1: The Problem of Hysteria

32:33

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Lecture 2: Monoideic Somnambulisms

32:26

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Lecture 3: Fugues and Polyideic Somnambulisms

33:41

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Lecture 4: Double Personalities

35:55

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

34:54

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Lecture 6: Motor Agitations - Contractures

30:39

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Lecture 7: Paralyses - Diagnosis

30:22

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Lecture 8: The Psychological Conception of Paralyses and Anesthesias

34:50

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Lecture 9: The Troubles of Vision

34:58

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Lecture 10: The Troubles of Speech

28:22

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Lecture 11: The Disturbances of Alimentation

27:48

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Lecture 12: The Tics of Respiration and Alimentation

33:31

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Lecture 13: The Hysterical Stigmata - Suggestibility

34:44

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Lecture 14: The Hysterical Stigmata - the Retraction of the Field of Consciousn…

32:55

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Lecture 15: General Definitions

32:07

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