A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century (English, French and German Edition) ebook

by J. Moussaieff Masson

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As for psychiatry in the twentieth centuary and pharmacology, I would dispute the science. Unfortunately, there is very little of Masson in A Dark Science. The preface, by Catharine MacKinnon, concerns pornography, which is not the subject of this book.

As for psychiatry in the twentieth centuary and pharmacology, I would dispute the science. One person found this helpful. And the body, nine translated articles from 19th century publications, really should have been appendices to a text. So, what was missing? The text.

Masson is married to Leila Masson, a German pediatrician. A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century. He also has a daughter by a previous marriage with Therese Claire Masson . Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing.

Though by no means an "easy read," Masson's collection of these nine articles exposes a point in the history of the practice of psychology that proves ignorance and negative attitudes towards women created a dark science that modern psychiatrists struggle to overcome. Dil: İNGİLİZCE Kategori: KURGU DIŞI Çeviren

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Here translated for the first time are a series of shocking texts from the 19th century German psychiatric literature, which, while almost completely unknown to modern readers, have had a devastating influence on attitudes toward women and children in the 20th century. The articles on the sexual "lies" and sexual "fantasies" of children were seminal, brutal, and still resonate today.

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Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century. By Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Without the existence of the Lane Medical Library at Stanford University and its fine collection of nineteenth-century journals, this book could not have been written. First, I am grateful to Catharine MacKinnon both for her preface and for her inspiring work.

A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century. The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory. The Oceanic Feeling: The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India. The Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta (Translator, with D. H. Ingalls and M. V. Patwardhan).

Anthology of horror-show articles by 19th-century doctors who advocated sadistic treatments for sexually disturbed women. This is a wild book, for many reasons. Masson passionately argues that: Freudians and other psychiatrists even today go along with these doctors, who belong more in a rogues' gallery than in medical history. One advocated cauterization as a remedy for excessive masturbation. Many believed removing the ovaries was a cure-all. A thrifty variation was merely telling the patient that her ovaries had been removed. A DARK SCIENCE: Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century. By. Get weekly book recommendations

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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born 1941 as Jeffrey Lloyd Masson) is a Sanskrit specialist . A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born 1941 as Jeffrey Lloyd Masson) is a Sanskrit specialist, holding a P. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University. He also was trained as a psychoanalyst in Toronto, Canada, where he completed a full clinical training programm at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute from 1970 to 1978. In the meantime Masson learned German, specialized in the history of psychoanalysis and was appointed projects director of the Freud Archives.

This interpretation of the way female sexuality was viewed by the nineteenth-century European medical profession characterizes an attitude based on massive ignorance and prejudice

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This book is a well-documented compilation of scientific cases presented at major European Professional societies at the end of the 19th and the early beginning of the 20th centuries. The papers have all been excellently translated by the author with assistance of some others, and the translations are excellent. It is as if you are reading the papers in English; there is little hint that they were written in another tongue.

The focus of this book is on original source material that shows widely accepted "scientific" views on women, children and sexuality. It is clear that women and children are regarded as psychologically unreliable due to their gender, in the case of women, and their youth, in the case of children. The chapters convincingly document that the prevailing scientific and legal opinions of the day presumed that the physiological/sexual nature of being a woman made her prone to hysteria and likely to imagine all manner of sexual harassment and assaults as a result that were never to be believed if a male or a male medical doctor asserted otherwise. Sexual predation by doctors or other males of women and children was unlikely to be true as a result, and since it was untrue, it had to be due to the sexual differences. Fixing these "hysterical" conditions required "fixing" some aspect of a woman's sexuality, so forced removal of ovaries, genital surgery to reduce "stimulation", etc. were seen as rational cures. Claim that the good doctor raped you? Why, you must be insane, because your are prone to hysteria which is a form of sexual over-stimulation, so the cure is to cauterize the clitoris! When mothers try to press legal claims against men whom they have accused of sexually assaulting their daughters, they are always described as being too hasty to believe their child. I suspect that the real reason that these women were all too ready to press legal charges was that they had themselves been subjects of sexual predation when they were young, and found it quite easy to believe that the child was telling the truth.

It would be easy to dismiss this book, especially after reading the screed that masquerades as a forward by a rabidly feminist scholar, but the texts presented largely substantiate her views. I highly recommend reading this book if you are interested either in the specific area that is the book's focus, or if you have a more general interest in seeing how psychologists have from time immemorial come up with "scientific" theories that are mere masks of cultural prejudices and religious sentiments dressed up as objective facts.

Jerdodov

I found the introductions engaging but the chapters did not deliver what I expected. I had to put it down without completing it but I will return to it later as it deserves to be read. Mr Masson is to be commended for this period of work bringing these issues to the forefront of our thinking. The attitudes to women as described can still be evidenced in medical science today. Such as the Australian surgeon who was recently tried and jailed for his brutality on operating on women's vaginal areas. And who showed little remorse when he was confronted with his disdain for obtaining consent, appeared to see no need to inform women of what he intended to do and was uninterested in dealing with the damaging consequences his surgery inflicted on the women who he was supposed to treat and heal. As for psychiatry in the twentieth centuary and pharmacology, I would dispute the science.

Hugifyn

Caveat: This should not be a "feminist" book. The "dark science" also applies to young and adolescent boys, as well as men. And women can also perpetrate horrific physical and/or sexual abuses upon their children, of both sexes. Be warned that this book is scary. It is also excellent and eye-opening.

Sardleem

As far as critiques of Freudian psychology are concerned, nobody does it better than Jeffrey Masson. He has that rare combination of critical insight, a razor-sharp intellect, the nose of a bloodhound, and absolutely crystal clear writing. Everything to which he applies these skills is not only a pleasure to read, but a source of great enlightenment.

Unfortunately, there is very little of Masson in A Dark Science. The preface, by Catharine MacKinnon, concerns pornography, which is not the subject of this book. And the body, nine translated articles from 19th century publications, really should have been appendices to a text. So, what was missing? The text.

In the introduction (the only section actually written by Masson) he states that the purpose of the book was to provide the relevant historical background to Assault on Truth, Masson's controversial book about Freud's repudiation of the ill-named "Seduction Theory." In Assault on Truth, Masson makes the claim that the reason Freud backed away from his assertion that childhood sexual abuse was the underlying cause of hysteria, was that it was not an accepted notion of the times. What was accepted was that children lied, and that female "patients" who claimed to have been abused were merely fantasizing. Masson's argument was a good one, supported by ample research and a sound understanding of Freud's theories. Predictably, Masson's claim was immediately rejected. (Freud, it should be remembered, is a cult hero, whose reputation is not to be trifled with.)

Undaunted by his expulsion from the psychological community, Masson rose to the task of supporting his claim with A Dark Science. Masson read literally thousands of articles written by prominent psychiatrists of Freud's generation. He also read hundreds of unexpurgated case histories of "hysterical" women. One would have thought that this wealth of research would have been reflected in the body of this book. In fact, it should have COMPRISED that body. Unfortunately, Masson dropped the ball by offering a few translated articles rather than the fruits of his research--namely, a history and critical analysis of not only these nine articles (which was missing, by the way), but of all the literature he examined. Now, that would have been a book worthy of Masson's prodigious talent!

If you would like to tackle this book, read Masson's introduction--like all of his writing, it is excellent. Then mine his bibliography. (Be sure to read Masson's other books--Final Analysis, Against Therapy and Assault on Truth, in that order.) Peter Breggin's works will give you a good basis for understanding the abuses that women, in particular, have suffered at the hands of psychiatrists.