HIST 3640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychotherapy, Sleepwalking, Migraine
30 Mar 2017
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Charcot represents the shifting of frameworks from a biological and semantic approach to one that began to resemble the more psychological approach we associate today with talk therapy. His belief that hysteria was a genuine disease and not a performance. The most famous teacher of the nervous diseases in the belle epoque in france o o. A lot of nervous disorders can be seen as reactions to the industrial age. A lot of those characteristics developed even further during the belle epoque era: dates roughly from 1871-1914 o o. Though industry had created a lot of anxiety in people because of the fast-paced life, in many ways this era was one of optimism. Charcot"s practices within this kind of optimistic embrace of science and technology. A bar at the folies-bergere, 1882 o o o o. Emblematic of the rising middle classes and the bourgeoisie in this period.
