Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette LeRoux by Jan Goldstein

Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette LeRoux

Jan Goldstein

246 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced
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A unique account of a peasant girl's mental illness in nineteenth-century France Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almo...

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