The major symptoms of hysteria : fifteen lectures given in the Medical School of Harvard University [between the fifteenth of October and the end of November, 1906] / by Pierre Janet.

  • Janet, Pierre, 1859-1947.
Date:
1907
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Credit: The major symptoms of hysteria : fifteen lectures given in the Medical School of Harvard University [between the fifteenth of October and the end of November, 1906] / by Pierre Janet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    perfectly remembers), he felt a violent pain in his head, as if he had been struck on the posterior part of his head. I point out these sensations to you without being able to dwell on them, for they have not as yet been suffi- ciently accounted for. But it is necessary you should know they often occur in the same conditions with neuropathic patients. The blow in the occiput is very often characteristic of great fits, of great changes of personality. It is just what happened in this case, for immediately after that something must have changed in the mental state of our patient, as he has entirely lost the memory of all that happened after- wards on that Sunday, the third of February, 1895, and on the following days. When he comes back to consciousness, or rather when he resumes the thread of his recollections, the circumstances are changed to an extravagant degree. His first recollection is the following: he was lying in a field, covered with snow, half dead, and amazed to find himself in that place; he got up painfully, found a road with a tramway line, walked along that line, and finally got, not without difficulty, to a town quite unknown to him, near a railway station. It was the South Station at Brussels. It was eleven o'clock in the evening, and the date he read in a newspaper was the twelfth of February. In short, he had felt a shock on the head at Nancy on the third of February, and awoke in the neighbourhood of Brussels on the twelfth. All that had happened in the meantime, how he accomplished that singular journey, he does not in the least know. He telegraphed to ask for assistance: he was taken