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SGBS 345 - Hysteria and the Modern Psyche

4.00 credit hours
(Same as: SGBN 345 .) This course explores the flourishing of hysteria as a diagnostic category in 19th and early 20th century Europe and its connections to new conceptions of the self and to the emerging sciences of neurology, psychology and psychiatry. This course looks at scientific, literary and artistic renderings of this phenomenon and also looks at the broader cultural impact of hysteria, hypnosis and related conceptions of “nervousness.”

Prerequisite(s): SGBS 102 .


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