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Author: Showalter

Format: Hardback

Number of Pages: 244

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.