Andrew Scull is a historian of psychiatry.
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“your system and went you know bankrupt so wear and tear that was the problem and the solution was fat and blood that was the title of the other book so you got scrawny and all nervous and twitchy and what you really needed was to build back up your strength including your nervous strength”
“The following is a conversation with Andrew Skull, a historian of psychiatry and mental health. He has authored many books that I highly recommend, including Madness in Civilization, a cultural history of insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Mad House to Modern Medicine,”
Studies in Hysteria
“in the world that were disruptive Freud of course developed a much more elaborate theory of this in years to come. Breuer collaborate on a book called studies in hysteria and there are series of case vignettes in there of patients Freud is treated and he develops the notion that people have these”
“and once he's abandoned that he goes on to develop increased and increasingly elaborate theory. He writes the interpretation of dreams for example because he begins to read God dreams as an arena where these hidden memories he suppressed things reemerge in disguised form in your dream life and”
“popular best sellers self-help books I suppose you'd call them in the modern genre one was called wear and tear so the pace of modern life the telegraph the railway was all too much and your nervous system was overstressed either your batteries ran down that was one analogy or you overtaxed”