The Major Symptoms of Hysteria: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, credited to Pierre Janet, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Major Symptoms of Hysteria by Pierre Janet. Read in English by Peter Tucker In this series of lectures delivered in English by the author while visiting the USA, Janet summarises the (at the time) cutting edge perspective on the various forms of hysteria. The syndromes include generalised amnesic states and conversion disorders, and show Janet's highly influential views regarding the fundamental role of dissociation. The lectures provide an insight into the development of this area of psychiatry out of the neurological field of the nineteenth century, with Janet dropping some famous names from the history of medicine. ( Peter Tucker)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Major Symptoms of Hysteria
• Author credits: Pierre Janet
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 8:11:31

Catalogue topics

• psychology
• mental illness
• psychiatry
• unconscious
• hysteria
• conversion disorder

Track guide

1. 00 - Prefatory note — 1:46
2. 01 - Lecture 1: The Problem of Hysteria — 32:33
3. 02 - Lecture 2: Monoideic Somnambulisms — 32:26
4. 03 - Lecture 3: Fugues and Polyideic Somnambulisms — 33:41
5. 04 - Lecture 4: Double Personalities — 35:55
6. 05 - Lecture 5: Convulsive Attacks, Fits of Sleep, Artificial Somnambulisms — 34:54
7. 06 - Lecture 6: Motor Agitations - Contractures — 30:39
8. 07 - Lecture 7: Paralyses - Diagnosis — 30:22
9. 08 - Lecture 8: The Psychological Conception of Paralyses and Anesthesias — 34:50
10. 09 - Lecture 9: The Troubles of Vision — 34:58
11. 10 - Lecture 10: The Troubles of Speech — 28:22
12. 11 - Lecture 11: The Disturbances of Alimentation — 27:48
13. 12 - Lecture 12: The Tics of Respiration and Alimentation — 33:31
14. 13 - Lecture 13: The Hysterical Stigmata - Suggestibility — 34:44
15. 14 - Lecture 14: The Hysterical Stigmata - the Retraction of the Field of Consciousness - the Common Stigmata — 32:55
16. 15 - Lecture 15: General Definitions — 32:07

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