Title: Hysteria complicated by ecstasy
Subtitle: the case of Nanette Leroux
First published: 2010
Description: "Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism, as hypnosis was then called. Jan Goldstein translates, and provides a substantial introduction to, the previously unpublished manuscript recounting Nanette's strange illness - a manuscript coauthored by Despine and Alexandre Bertrand, the Paris physician who diagnosed Nanette as suffering from "hysteria complicated by ecstasy.""--Jacket.
Subjects: Psychiatry, Mental health, Case studies, Hysteria, History, Psychiatry, history, Public health, france, Complications, History, 19th Century, N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, Adverse effects, Magd, Hysterie, Krankengeschichte
Places: France
People: Nanette Leroux
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: RC532 .G65 2010