Brings into relief a critical relationship between the female mind and body that is essential to understanding the discursive position of the turn-of-the-centur

This is Szasz's most ambitious work to date. In his best-selling book, The Myth of Mental Illness, he took psychiatry to task for misconstruing human conflict a

Offering an authoritative and timely account of the relationship between literature and medicine in the eighteenth century and Romantic period, a time when most

Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversions; over-id

Nathanael West has been hailed as “an apocalyptic writer,” “a writer on the left,” and “a precursor to postmodernism.” But until now no critic has s