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Dedication

Introduction

1: The concept of neurosis

The starting point: the views of Willis and Sydenham on 'Hysterical and hypochondriacal distempers'

The consolidation of the concept of' nervous disease'

The concept of neurosis in Cullen

The concept of neurosis from Cullen to the beginning of the anatomoclinical period

2: The concept of neurosis in German romantic medicine

Absence of the concept of neurosis in the work of the followers of' Naturphilosophie'

The concept of ' nervous disease' in Reil

The concept of neurosis in the work of Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland and of other eclectic authors

The concept of neurosis during the transition between romantic and anatomoclinical medicine: Johann Lucas Schonlein and his school

3: The concept of neurosis in anatomoclinical medicine before Charcot

Pinel's work as the starting point of the anatomoclinical view of the neuroses

The concept of neurosis during the first anatomoclinical period: Georget's revision

The anatomoclinical concept of neurosis from Georget to Charcot: 'functional localization'

4: The physiopathological view and the concept of neurosis

Broussais's ' medecine physiologique'

The disappearance of the term ' neurosis' from British medicine

The concept of 'spinal irritation'

The ' reflex functional nervous diseases'

From 'intermediate neuroses' to neurasthenia

The so-called ' vasomotor and trophic neuroses'

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