CONTENTS

List of illustrations

Prologue: Suffocation of the Mother

1 Mysteria

2 Neurologie

3 An English Malady?

4 Reflexly Mad

5 American Nervousness

6 A Hysterical Circus

7 Freudian Hysterics

8 The Wounds of War

9 L’Hystérie morte?

Glossary

Notes

Further reading

Index