A Cursing Brain? : : The Histories of Tourette Syndrome / / Howard I. Kushner.
Over a century and a half ago, a French physician reported the bizarre behavior of a young aristocratic woman who would suddenly, without warning, erupt in a startling fit of obscene shouts and curses. The image of the afflicted Marquise de Dampierre echoes through the decades as the emblematic exam...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Terms
- 1. An Elusive Syndrome
- 2. The Case of the Cursing Marquise
- 3. A Disputed Illness
- 4. The Case of “O.” and the Emergence of Psychoanalysis
- 5. Competing Claims
- 6. The Disappearance of Tic Illness
- 7. Margaret Mahler and the Tic Syndrome
- 8. Haloperidol and the Persistence of the Psychogenic Frame
- 9. The French Resistance
- 10. The Triumph of the Organic Narrative
- 11. Clashing Cultural Conceptions
- 12. Clinical Lessons
- Glossary
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index