18: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 2: Hysteria, Hypnosis, and Imposter Syndrome Teaser
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Jul 29, 2023
Dive into the intriguing world of historical mental health treatments, focusing on hysteria and the controversial 'rest cure' of the Victorian era. Explore the clash between neurasthenia and hysteria, alongside the enigmatic origins of hypnotism attributed to figures like Mesmer. Discover Freud’s candid reflections on his own struggles with hypnosis and the concept of imposter syndrome. Gain insight into how these historical discussions shape our understanding of modern mental health and the anxieties that linger from the past.
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Victorian Rest Cures
Victorian novels often featured rescuers and seaside retreats for recuperation.
This reflects a slightly more elaborate version with medical supervision, like rest cures.
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Modernity and Exhaustion
Concerns about exhaustion from modernity are implicit in many disorders. Rest cures, with massages and electrical stimulation, aim to re-regulate the body.
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Electricity's Role
The use of electricity in rest cures wasn't like modern electroshock therapy. It had a sympathetic magic element, connecting external electricity to the body's.
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Trance and Treatment provides a systematic approach to understanding and utilizing hypnosis in therapeutic settings. It covers a wide range of applications, including smoking control, eating disorders, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorders. The book is structured to serve both new and experienced practitioners, offering practical techniques and case examples. It introduces the Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) as a crucial tool for assessing hypnotizability and tailoring interventions.
Die akute Neurasthenie
Die akute Neurasthenie
Acute Neurasthenia
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Die Behandlung gewisser Formen von Neurasthenie und Hysterie
Die Behandlung gewisser Formen von Neurasthenie und Hysterie
The Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
We’re back with a new installment of the Standard Edition! We discuss two short reviews from 1887 (of Averbeck’s Die akute Neurasthenie [Acute Neurasthenia] and Weir Mitchell’s Die Behandlung gewisser Formen von Neurasthenie und Hysterie [the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria] and the essays “Hysteria” and “Hystero-Epilepsy” (1888). Then we get into the first parts of the “Papers on Hypnotism and Suggestion,” including the “Preface to the Translation of Bernheim’s Suggestion” (1888 or 1888-89) and the “Review of August Forel’s Der Hypnotismus [Hypnotism]” (1889) and finish up with Freud’s 1891 essay on “Hypnosis.” Along the way, we talk neurasthenia vs. hysteria, Weir Mitchell’s “rest cure,” Mesmer and the origins of hypnotism, the anxieties that underwrite historical arguments over hypnosis and suggestion, the legacies of hypnosis within what comes to be psychoanalysis, Freud’s imposter syndrome about his own failures as a hypnotist, and much more.
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