How The Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria and the Riddle of Mental Illness by Dr Allan Ropper

How The Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria and the Riddle of Mental Illness

Dr Allan Ropper

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction health history psychology science medium-paced
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In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand asylum of human misery'. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickl...

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