ABSTRACT

The current diversity in psychoanalytic theories of hysteria has confused our understanding of the concept. Matrix of Hysteria offers a new perspective, which draws on previous theories to present a clear and cohesive view of the theoretical and clinical aspects of hysteria.
Drawing on extensive experience in analytic work, supervision and teaching, Nitza Yarom employs clinical vignettes to offer the reader an illuminating account of this subject. The book is divided into two sections, covering clinical and theoretical issues and including discussion of subjects such as:
*Oedipus, Sexuality and Gender
*An Intrapsychic Perspective on the Matrix
*The Language of the Intersubjective Body
*Hysteria and the Analytic Setting
*Trauma and Hysteria
Psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and practice will welcome this original insight into the subject of hysteria.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Hysteria as an intrapsychic and intersubjective event reflected in a matrix

part |2 pages

Part I The matrix of hysteria from a clinical point of view

chapter 1|29 pages

A “matrix of hysteria”

The struggle between the sexes as enacted in the body

chapter 2|22 pages

Hysteria between patient and analyst

An intersubjective perspective on the matrix

chapter 3|32 pages

Clinical applications

Case studies

chapter 4|25 pages

Sexual states: the synthesis of the hysterical and the perverse

The synthesis of the hysterical and the perverse Paradigms of perversion

chapter 5|19 pages

Hysteria and psychosis: sexuality and madness

Sexuality and madness Sexuality: hysterical dynamics within psychosis

chapter 6|23 pages

Further thoughts on diagnosis and treatment

How to read the “matrix of hysteria”

part |2 pages

Part II The matrix of hysteria from a theoretical point of view

chapter |1 pages

Introduction

Reflections on hysteria in three psychoanalytic cultures

chapter 7|15 pages

Reflections on hysteria in British psychoanalysis

The Kleinian perspective: hysteria between the two positions

chapter |5 pages

Epilogue

The “matrix of hysteria” as a “unifying framework”