18: Standard Edition Volume 1 Part 2: Hysteria, Hypnosis, and Imposter Syndrome Teaser

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We’re back with a new installment of the Standard Edition! We discuss two short reviews from 1887 (of Averbeck’s Die akute Neurasthenie [Acute Neurasthenia] and Weir Mitchell’s Die Behandlung gewisser Formen von Neurasthenie und Hysterie [the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria] and the essays “Hysteria” and “Hystero-Epilepsy” (1888). Then we get into the first parts of the “Papers on Hypnotism and Suggestion,” including the “Preface to the Translation of Bernheim’s Suggestion” (1888 or 1888-89) and the “Review of August Forel’s Der Hypnotismus [Hypnotism]” (1889) and finish up with Freud’s 1891 essay on “Hypnosis.” Along the way, we talk neurasthenia vs. hysteria, Weir Mitchell’s “rest cure,” Mesmer and the origins of hypnotism, the anxieties that underwrite historical arguments over hypnosis and suggestion, the legacies of hypnosis within what comes to be psychoanalysis, Freud’s imposter syndrome about his own failures as a hypnotist, and much more.

The Spiegel text that Patrick alludes to throughout the episode is Herbert Spiegel and David Spiegel’s Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis (2nd ed): https://www.appi.org/Products/Psychotherapy/Trance-and-Treatment-Second-Edition

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