From Lesion to Metaphor

Dr Andrew Hodgkiss is consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Liaison Psychiatry at St Thomas’ Hospital & King’s College, London. Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research, London.

Abstract

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Secondary Literature Review and Methodological Remarks

1. The Birth of a Problem

2. A Local Irritation. Pain without lesion in the writings of French and British physicians and surgeons: 1820-40

3. Gemeingefühl. German Romanticism, cenesthesis and subjective pain: 1794-1846

4. Reflexion and Depression. Pain without lesion in mid-century German and British ‘neurological' and ‘psychiatric' writings: 1840-55

5. Functional Nervous Disorders in French and British Medical Texts: 1859-71

6. Functional Nervous Disorders in French and British Medical Texts: 1866-1886

7. Psychalgia and Conversion. Pain without lesion in late nineteenth-century psychiatric and psychoanalytic writings: 1872-95

8. Pain ans Psychopathology in Early Twentieth-Century French and German Psychiatric Writings: 1900-14

Conclusions

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Index