How The Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria and the Riddle of Mental Illness by Brian Burrell, Allan H. Ropper

How The Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria and the Riddle of Mental Illness

Brian Burrell, Allan H. Ropper

256 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology science challenging informative slow-paced
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"The remarkable, intertwined histories of neurology, psychiatry, neurosyphilis, and hysteria, and the derailing of a coordinated approach to mental illness. In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established ...

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