num_pages: 207
description: Filled with fascinating new perspectives on a culture saturated with syndromes of every sort, "Hystories" skillfully surveys the condition of hysteria--its causes, cures, famous patients, and doctors--in the 20th century to show that hysterias are always with us, a kind of collective coping mechanism for changing times.
language: English
title: Hystories : Hysteria, Gender and Culture
titlecomplete: Hystories : Hysteria, Gender and Culture
genres: Psychology, Feminism, History, Science, Theory, Gender, Politics, Cultural, Medicine, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 200
publisher: Picador