Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-290) and index.
Contents -- Preface -- Note on Terms -- 1 An Elusive Syndrome -- 2 The Case of the Cursing Marquise -- 3 A Disputed Illness -- 4 The Case of O. and the Emergence of Psychoanalysis -- 5 Competing Claims -- 6 The Disappearance of Tic Illness -- 7 Margaret Mahler and the Tic Syndrome -- 8 Haloperidol and the Persistence of the Psychogenic Frame -- 9 The French Resistance -- 10 The Triumph of the Organic Narrative -- 11 Clashing Cultural Conceptions -- 12 Clinical Lessons -- Glossary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
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A study of Tourette syndrome, "a set of behaviors, involuntary shouting (sometimes cursing) as well as obsessive-compulsive actions. ... Reveals how cultural and medical assumptions have determined and radically altered its characterization and treatment from the early nineteenth century to the present."--Jacket.
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Cursing brain?.
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Histories of Tourette syndrome
Tourette syndrome-- History.
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