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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Studies in hysteria / Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer ; translated by Nicola Luckhurst ; with an introduction by Rachel Bowlby.

London ; New York : Penguin Books, ©2004.

xlii, 315 pages ; 19 cm.

"Studies in Hysteria is one of the founding texts of psychoanalysis, revolutionizing our understanding of love, desire and the human psyche. As full of compassionate human interest as of scientific insight, these case histories are also remarkable revelatory works of literature."--Jacket.

Modern classics

Penguin modern classics.

Hysteria.

Psychoanalysis.

Breuer, Josef, 1842-1925.

Luckhurst, Nicola.

Studien über Hysteria. English

Breuer's name appears first on earlier editions.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the German.

Introduction / Rachel Bowlby -- On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena (Preliminary Statement) (Breuer and Freud) -- Case Histories -- Fraulein Anna O. (Breuer) -- Frau Emmy von N. (Freud) -- Miss Lucy R. (Freud) -- Katharina (Freud) -- Fraulein Elisabeth von R. (Freud) -- Theoretical Issues (Breuer) -- Are All Hysterical Phenomena Ideogenic? -- Intracerebral Tonic Excitation--Affects -- Hysterical Conversion -- Hypnoid States -- Ideas that are Unconscious or Inadmissible to Consciousness, Splitting of the Psyche -- Innate Disposition; The Development of Hysteria -- On the Psychotherapy of Hysteria (Freud) -- Hysterical Phantasies and their Relation to Bisexuality (Freud).

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