... constipation have been touted throughout medical history since the earliest written records. In the West, intestinal cleanliness had variously been linked to not only physical, but also spiri- tual, moral, and emotional well-being through...

... So, too, with anorexia nervosa, hysterical vomiting, and disruptions of the stomach and bowel. For Ferenczi, these symptoms demand an explana- tion of the conversion mechanism that is more conversant with gastric, intestinal, or...

... could be that of a black woman [mon coeur peut être un coeur de femme noir (30 my cognitive capacities, kidneys, intestines, knees, hips, skin, and arteries are not in a synchronicity of health or degradation. My own heart might be best consid...

... idea on their stomachs and intestines” (qtd. in Janet 325 ). In other words, hysteria designated the corporeal representation of a mental or emotional conflict. Like the psychosomatic causes from which these symptoms derived, the ravaging physical effects of a hysterical attack were repeatedly...