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Before Freud: Hysteria and Hypnosis in Later Nineteenth-Century Psychiatric Cases
Before Freud Hysteria and Hypnosis in Later NineteenthCentury Psychiatric Cases Author:Lilian R. Furst "Before Freud" is an anthology of psychiatric case histories published between 1869 and 1894 by five leading medical practitioners: George Beard, Richard Krafft-Ebing, Arthur Schnitzler, Jean-Martin Charcot, and Pierre Janet. Most of the cases here are translated from German or French for the first time. The purpose of this collection is to make... more » accessible to English speakers important primary documents crucial not only for the history of psychology but also for an understanding of the literature of the period.« less