Janet Oppenheim's book explores an illness that figures in nearly every volume of Victorian autobiography, memoirs, diaries, letters, and more than a few novels. Variously described as shattered nerves, nervous collapse, neurasthenia, or nervous breakdown, the illness was the focus of extensive medical discussion during the Victorian and Edwardian decades. Few doctors could decide whether nervous breakdown was a physiological disorder, to be cured by medication, or a moral weakness for which the patient needed psychiatric ...
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Janet Oppenheim's book explores an illness that figures in nearly every volume of Victorian autobiography, memoirs, diaries, letters, and more than a few novels. Variously described as shattered nerves, nervous collapse, neurasthenia, or nervous breakdown, the illness was the focus of extensive medical discussion during the Victorian and Edwardian decades. Few doctors could decide whether nervous breakdown was a physiological disorder, to be cured by medication, or a moral weakness for which the patient needed psychiatric care. Oppenheim uses the letters, diaries, and autobiographies of men and women who suffered breakdowns, examines medical archives, published scientific sources, and contemporary fiction, in which the `nervous type' was so familiar as to border on caricature. Shattered Nerves places a puzzling medical problem in its full social, cultural, and intellectual context.
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Near fine in very good jacket. viii + 388pp., 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0195057813. Contents include: Sir James Crichton-Browne, Nerve Force and Neurasthesia, Nerve Tonics and Treatments, Manly Nerves, Neurotic Women, Nervous Children, and Nervous Degeneration.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Quarter-bound red cloth on tan boards, 388p w Notes and Index. Dustjacket in mylar cover. "Drawing on a wide range of sources, and writing about Victorian doctors and Victorian patients with insight and wisdom, Janet Oppenheim has written a fascinating study of how Victorian men, women and children coped with their nerves in the years before Freud. She tells us not only about the history of medicine but much about the age itself, its preoccupations and obsessions." Peter Stansky, Stanford University.