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SGBN 345 - Hysteria and the Modern Psyche

4.00 credit hours
(Same as: SGBS 345 .) Hysteria flourished as a diagnostic category in 19th and early 20th century Europe. This course explores its connections to new conceptions of the self and to the emerging sciences of neurology, psychology and psychiatry. This course looks at scientific, literary and artistic renderings of this phenomenon and at the broader cultural impact of hysteria, hypnosis and related conceptions of “nervousness.”

Prerequisite(s): SGBS 102 .


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