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ISBN10: 1892746751, ISBN13: 9781892746757, [publisher: Other Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Winner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The 2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology During the 1950's, US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These doctors reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress behaved in a very peculiar and dramatic manner, exhibiting a theatrical form of pseudo-epilepsy. Startled physicians observed frightened and disoriented patients foaming at the mouth, screaming, biting, kicking, shaking in seizures, and fainting. The phenomenon seemed to correspond to a serious neurological disease yet, as with some forms of hysteria, physical examination failed to identify any sign of an organic origin. This unusual set of symptoms, entered into medical records as 'a group of striking psychopathological reaction patterns, precipitated by minor stress,' and was designated 'Puerto Rican Syndrome.' In this lucid and sophisticated new work, Patricia Gherovici thoroughly examines the so-called Puerto Rican Syndrome in the contemporary world, its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic population in the US and, therefore, for the US as a whole. As a mental illness that is, allegedly, uniquely Puerto Rican, this syndrome links ...
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ISBN10: 1892746751, ISBN13: 9781892746757, [publisher: Other Press] Softcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]

ISBN10: 1892746751, ISBN13: 9781892746757, [publisher: Other Press] Softcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]