The Puerto Rican Syndrome
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
17 November 2003
Summary
Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic AnthropologyDuring the 1950’s, US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These doctors reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress behaved in a very peculiar and dramatic manner, exhibiting a theatrical form of pseudo-epilepsy. Startled physicians observed frightened and dis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781892746757 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1892746751 |
| Author: | Patricia Gherovici |
| Publisher: | Other Press LLC |
| Imprint: | Other Press LLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 17 November 2003 |
| Weight: | 439g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Cultural Studies |
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About The Author
Patricia Gherovici
Patricia GheroviciPatricia Gherovici is an analyst in private practice and founding member and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar. She has published in numerous journals and collections, most recently Where Id Was- Challenging Normalization in Psychoanalysis (Continuum- 2001). She is the former director of a mental health clinic in Philadelphia.
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