From Paralysis to Fatigue

A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era

By Edward Shorter

1991

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13H11M

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Placing the physical symptoms of stress in a historical and cultural context, the author shows how patients through the centuries have produced symptoms in tandem with the cultural shifts of the larger society

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Author

Edward Shorter

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