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Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière

Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière

Didi-Huberman, Georges
Hartz, Alisa

Paperback

General PsychologyPhotography History & CriticismMental Health

ISBN10: 0262541807
ISBN13: 9780262541800
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 17 2004
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.80
Height: 0.85 Width: 7.04 Depth: 9.94
Language: English
The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria.

In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria's specific form. These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere.

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