“Paralysed with fears and worries”: Neurasthenia as a Gender-Specific Disease of Civilization (2013)
Slijkhuis, Jessica (Author)
Oosterhuis, Harry (Author)
History of Psychiatry
Volume: 24
Pages: 79-93
Around 1900 neurasthenia received much attention in both the medical world and society at large. Based on professional publications by Dutch psychiatrists and neurologists and on patient records from the Rhijngeest sanatorium near Leiden in the Netherlands, this article addresses the meanings and interpretations of this nervous disorder as put forward by doctors and patients. We argue that their understanding of this disorder was determined not only by medical views, but also by social-cultural factors and prevailing gender norms.
...MoreDescription Based on professional publications by Dutch psychiatrists and neurologists and on patient records from the Rhijngeest sanatorium near Leiden in the Netherlands around 1900.
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