Mad Men and Medusas
Subtitle: Reclaiming Hysteria
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: September 5, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780465046133
First sentence: The Taita people live in the Coast province of Kenya.
Description: "This is both a defense of the long-dismissed diagnosis of hysteria as a centerpiece of the human condition and a plea for a new understanding of the influence of sibling and peer relationships. Sibling relationships are crucial to development because they are our first social relationship, Mitchell argues, and it is a critical failure of psychoanalysis and other psychological theories of development to obscure and ignore siblings and peers."--BOOK JACKET.