Hysterical Men

The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness

Mark S. Micale

    • Acknowledgments
    • Note on Usage
    • Prologue. Hysteria: The Male Malady
    1. Hysterick Women and Hypochondriack Men
    2. The Great Victorian Eclipse
    3. Charcot and La Grande Hystérie Masculine
    4. Male Hysteria at the Fin de Siècle
    5. Freud and the Origins of Psychoanalysis
    • Conclusion. Men and the Fictions of Medicine
    • Notes
    • Index
  • Cover: Hysterical Men
  • A photo of the author

Mark S. Micale is Associate Professor of History and the History of Medicine, University of Illinois in Urbana–Champaign.