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Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity—the basis for patriarchal rule—in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. Hysterical Men boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure male by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it.
Mark Micale reveals the hidden side of this vision, that is, the innumerable cases of disturbed and deranged men who passed under the eyes of male medical and scientific elites from the seventeenth century onward. Since ancient times, physicians and philosophers had closely observed and extravagantly theorized female weakness, emotionality, and madness. What these male experts failed to see—or saw but did not acknowledge—was masculine nervous and mental illness among all classes and in diverse guises. While cultural and literary intellectuals pioneered new languages of male emotional distress, European science was invested in cultivating and protecting the image of male, middle-class detachment, objectivity, and rationality despite rampant counter-evidence in the clinic, in the laboratory, and on battlefields.
The reasons for suppressing male neurosis from the official discourses of science and medicine as well as from popular view range from the personal and psychological to the professional and the political. They make for a history full of profound silences, omissions, and amnesias. Now, however, under the greatly altered circumstances of today’s gender revolution, Micale’s work allows this story to be heard.
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This book is a very enjoyable read, and far beyond what I expected from the editorial reviews. Micale gives a history of "hysteria" starting with the Greeks and ending with Freud. Micale sheds light on the issue of gender issues in psychology's history, and also looks at the interplay between objectivity and subjectivity in psychological science. I highly recommend this book.
By BG
In choosing to follow the 1880's advice of the psychologist/psychiatrist who advised to leave hysteria to women, society has ignored the most obvious and lethal problem known to human society - the potential for violence as a backlash of dismissing anxiety in men.
Whether it has been studied sufficiently to produce the inevitable outcome of such a study to show that ignored or misplaced anxiety becomes the violence that men produce is doubtful. The preference for force as a substitute for anxiety-repression in men has not worked and will not work because of the inevitable backlash of resentment and consternation of mean recognizing how poorly they are treated in this manner by employers, spouses, and law enforcement.
Expectations of male stoicism is the cause but not the cure, and men unable to reconcile these devisive emotional imprints are destined to fall victim to mental illness, further violence, and social conflicts they are unable to resolve emotionally - causing a disastrous trail of victims and failing effects, compromising their own human potential in the process.
Men have long taken care of men's physical bodies, and have all but ignored their mental and emotional parts.
Excuses are inadequate recognizing the harm to mankind and the cost to society.
By Patricia B. Ross