... the idea of human psychology by favouring the emergence of two concepts: the subconscious and the unconscious. It was his collaboration with Pierre Janet (1859–1947), a philosopher turned physician, that led to this evolution, relying on the search for hysteria’s aetiology, using hypnosis as a method...

...Olivier Walusinski Victor Burq (1822–1884) is closely associated with a therapy named “burquism” by Jean-Martin Charcot, which was used in treating hysteria, especially hysteric anesthesia and paralysis, by applying metals, mainly copper, to affected zones. In 1876, Charcot, Luys, and Dumontpallier...

... in this review the numerous therapeutic tests that he conducted: vibratory medicine for Parkinson’s disease, treatment of tabes by suspension technique, metallotherapy and moral -treatment for hysteria. Understanding that he fully and completely adhered to the far-reaching heredity-based theories of his day...

...John M.S. Pearce This historical essay outlines early ideas and clinical accounts of hysteria. It reproduces verbatim parts of a remarkable text of Thomas Sydenham. This provides the most detailed description of hysterical symptoms, contemporary treatment and particularly Sydenham's opinions about...

...Adam A. Dmytriw The diagnosis of hysteria has existed for at least four-thousand years, with roots in the ancient Greek word hysterikos , referring to diseases of the womb. In the sixteenth-century medical discourses, female hysteria was caused by excess pollution of the womb, with fluids that were...

... of hysteria the first time she saw her daughter in this state. In addition to these occurrences common to cataleptics, her sense of smell was exquisite: if any slightly strong spirituous odour was brought within one or two inches of her right nostril, she would throw herself to the left; if one approached...

...Julien Bogousslavsky; Olivier Walusinski; Denis Veyrunes Hysteria and hypnotism became a favorite topic of studies in the fin de siècle neurology that emerged from the school organized at La Salpêtrière by Jean-Martin Charcot, where he had arrived in 1861. Georges Gilles de la Tourette started...