Asti Hustvedt’s Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth Century Paris explores 19th century French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot’s use of hypnosis to induce hysteria in his patients.
Kathryn Harrison’s review of the book outlines how the ever-elusive idea of hysteria resisted not only Charcot’s circus-like experimentation on women, but also subsequent scientific definition or treatment.
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