Rachel Bowlby (English, U. of York), who has written on women and psychoanalysis, introduces five case histories that helped make the "talking cure" in/famous. The volume also includes discussion of theoretical issues, e.g. Freud on the relationship of hysteria to bisexuality. Translated from Studien ber Hysterie, Leipzig and Vienna: Deuticke, 1895, by Luckhurst (U. of London). The prefaces to the 1895 and original 1893 editions are included. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
