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Showing posts with label hysteria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hysteria. Show all posts

Monday, 18 January 2010

from paul richer's "études cliniques"



Illustrations from:

 Etudes cliniques sur l'hyistéro-épilepsie ou grand hystérie, Paris, 1881

pdf available @ archive.org



attaque démoniaque





phase d'immobilité tonique





périodes des attitudes passionnelles



Sunday, 13 December 2009

on hysteria

Some images from

Hysteria Beyond Freud

(Sander L. Gilman, Helen King, Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau, Elaine Showalter)


University of California Press, 1993




The hypnotized patient and the tuning fork. From Paul Richer, "Gonflement du cou chez un hystérique"




The sensitive skin of the epileptic becomes a tabula rasa upon which the disease can be inscribed. From Charles Féré, "Note sur un cas de mélanodermie récurrente chez un épileptique apathique,"The hand of the male hysteric. From Paul Sollier, "Contracture Volontaire chez un Hystérique"



The hand of the male hysteric. From Paul Sollier, "Contracture Volontaire chez un Hystérique"