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  • under hypnosis, spirit possession, and hysteria. He proposed that in these ... The topics of his lectures ranged from hysteria, amnesia, and obsession ...
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  • be victims of witchcraft. In the ensuing hysteria during the summer of 1692 ... #039;s credulity as an example of mass hysteria, when mass public near-panic ...
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  • quot; (idiocy), and "merergasia" (hysteria). To make an accurate diagnosis of the problems his patients experienced, Meyer tried to ...
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  • into terms such as melancholia, dementia, hysteria, and hallucinations. They ... – 1815) introduced the treatment of hysteria with hypnotherapy, but this ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Jones, Ernest [[Image:Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.jpg|thumb|Jones, middle of the back row ...
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  • *Halasz, Nicholas. Captain Dreyfus: The Story of a Mass Hysteria. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1955. ISBN 978-0671200299 *Lewis, David L. Prisoners ...
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  • is described as being in a state of hysteria owing to her husband's ... Maria Eleonora had plunged into a prolonged crisis of hysteria and ...
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  • The rising climate of public hysteria concerning these "immoral" and "dangerous" practices (in addition to concerns that ...
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  • ignited by a public frenzy of anti-Mormon hysteria. Although Lockwood did not espouse the practice of polygamy, she respected the right of Mormons ...
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  • Critics accused the fasting girls of hysteria, superstition, and deceit. the disorder was thought to be a form of hysteria that affected mainly women ...
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  • the desire for sanctity and martyrdom with hysteria and masochism (besides denying the perversity of homosexuals). Some years later Krafft-Ebing ...
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  • a kind of vampire. The "chupacabra hysteria" was frequently associated ... During late 2002 and early 2003, hysteria about alleged attacks of ...
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  • endorsed hypnotism for the treatment of hysteria, which led to a number of ... of mental aspects under hypnosis (or hysteria) so skills and memory could ...
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  • symptoms of what was then called female hysteria. She was a highly intelligent ... In 1896 Freud posited that the symptoms of 'hysteria' and ...
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  • his reception as "worshipful hysteria" and noted that the royal family, for the first time in history, left the royal box to see the ...
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  • is quite familiar, viz. degeneration and hysteria, of which the minor stages are designated as neurasthenia." The book deals with numerous ...
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  • (1957), examined violence, hysteria, sex, crime, and confusion in American society. He wrote numerous book reviews and essays for The New York ...
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  • etiology (cause). Prior to Charcot's work, hysteria had been defined as a women's disease caused by a "wandering uterus" (the name ...
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  • problems, partly because of the atmosphere of hysteria that had built up in the preceding generation and the habitually intemperate language and extravagant ...
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  • such as the "Daycare Sexual Abuse" hysteria in the 1980s and 1990s, in which daycare workers were accused of ritual sexual abuse of children ...
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