From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era by Edward Shorter

From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era

Edward Shorter

419 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced
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Shorter shows how psychosomatic symptoms are related to cultural conditions. In the repressive Victorian period, such symptoms were generally hysteria and paralysis. In the permissive society, they took the form of enervation and languor.

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