Bernard Mandeville: A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1730)

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Presents a major text on hypochondria and hysteria by a major 18th century philosopherShows that Mandeville may be seen as the rightful precursor of the Freudian talking cureMakes available a work that has been unavailable for more than thirty years

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Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon is assistant professor in English literature at the University of Paris VIII. A specialist of XVIIIth century British literature, she has mainly written on XVIIIth-century Scotland, British literature of the XVIIIth century, translation in England and France during the Enlightenment and the relationship between medicine and literature.

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