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F M Mai

Publications and source records attributed to F M Mai.

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PubMed1983

Pierre Briquet: 19th century savant with 20th century ideas.

This paper describes what is known about Briquet's life and character based on obituaries published in medical literature shortly after his death. It reviews his later writings on hysteria and integrates these with the Treatise published in 1859. Finally it summarizes the opinions of his immediate successors such as Charcot, Richer, de la Tourette and Janet; all of whom referred favourably to Briquet in the course of their writings on hysteria.

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PubMed1981

Briquet's concept of hysteria: an historical perspective.

Paul Briquet's Traité de l'Hystérie was published in 1859 and is a comprehensive clinical and epidemiological study of 430 patients with hysteria. It was widely known and quoted in its time, but was submerged by the rise of the psychoanalytic concept of hysteria at the end of the 19th century. Briquet's work was resurrected in 1971 with the recommendation that the term Briquet's Syndrome be used for certain forms of hysteria. This paper translates into English those sections of his monograph devoted to his concept of hysteria and discusses these in an historical framework. Briquet regarded hysteria as a "Neurosis of the Brain" in which a variety of unpleasant environmental events acted upon the "affective part of the brain" in a susceptible and predisposed individual. He considered the brain to be the "seat of hysteria" because it was the source of the multiple manifestations of the condition. Amongst its many other notable contributions, Briquet's study finally laid to rest hysteria's historic association with physical disease of the female genitalia.

Female↗
PubMed1980

Briquet's Treatise on hysteria. A synopsis and commentary.

Paul Briquet's Treatise on Hysteria, published in 1859, consists of a clinical and epidemiologic study of 430 patients with hysteria seen over a ten-year period. The etiologic factors were youth, female sex, "affective" and "impressionable" temperament, family history of the disorder, low social class, migration, sexual licentiousness, situational difficulties, and poor physical health. He considered the "effective part of the brain" the final common pathway that mediated these causative agents. In treatment, Briquet emphasized the importance of an improvement in social circumstances and the need to minimize environmental problems. The monograph is not only fascinating to read; the clinical and investigative approach of Briquet has an enduring relevance in the context of modern concepts of hysteria.

Adolescent↗