Rituals: Short history of Woman

Short history of Woman

Jean-Martin Charcot studied women in an asylum in France and used hypnosis as treatment. He also mentored Pierre Janet, another French psychologist, who studied five of hysteria's symptoms (anesthesia, amnesia, abulia, motor control diseases, and character change) in depth and proposed that hysteria symptoms occurred due to a lapse in consciousness.[...]

Scientists have used photography to explore the different phases of hysteria in women. Charcot studied and treated precisely the physical manifestations of the "disease", while Janet paid attention to the psychological state.[...]

The consequences of hysteria as a diagnosable disease in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had a lasting impact on the medical treatment of women's health. The term "hysterical" when applied to a person can mean that he is emotional, irrationally upset or enraged. Today we know that hysteria can be the result of PTSD or hypersensitivity.

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