Title: The Puerto Rican syndrome
Description: During the 1950s, US Army medical officers reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress exhibited a theatrical form of pseudo-epilepsy. This work examines the so-called Puerto Rican Syndrome and its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic population in the US.
Subjects: Puerto Ricans, Mental health, Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, History, Hispanic Americans, Mental Disorders, Diagnosis, Ethnology, Psychoanalytic Theory, Mental illness, diagnosis