{"product_id":"9781892746757","title":"The Puerto Rican Syndrome","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eGherovici, Patricia\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOther Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11\/17\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eWinner of the Gradiva Award in Historical Cultural and Literary Analysis and The  2004 Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e During the 1950's,  US Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry  could neither explain nor cure. These doctors reported that Puerto Rican soldiers  under stress behaved in a very peculiar and dramatic manner, exhibiting a theatrical  form of pseudo-epilepsy. Startled physicians observed frightened and disoriented  patients foaming at the mouth, screaming, biting, kicking, shaking in seizures, and  fainting. The phenomenon seemed to correspond to a serious neurological disease yet,  as with some forms of hysteria, physical examination failed to identify any sign  of an organic origin. This unusual set of symptoms, entered into medical records  as \"a group of striking psychopathological reaction patterns, precipitated by minor  stress,\" and was designated \"Puerto Rican Syndrome.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this lucid and sophisticated  new work, Patricia Gherovici thoroughly examines the so-called Puerto Rican Syndrome  in the contemporary world, its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic  population in the US and, therefore, for the US as a whole. As a mental illness that  is, allegedly, uniquely Puerto Rican, this syndrome links nationality and culture  to a psychiatric disease whose reappearance recalls the spectacular hysteria that  led to the discovery of the unconscious and the birth of psychoanalysis. Gherovici  beautifully and systematically uses the combined insights of Freud and Lacan to examine  the current state of psychoanalysis and the Hispanic community in America. Blending  these insights with history, current events, and her own case material, Gherovici  provides a startling, fresh look at Puerto Rican Syndrome as social and cultural  phenomenon. She sheds new light on the future of American society and argues that  psychoanalysis is not only possible, but much needed in the ghetto.","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44216515789055,"sku":"9781892746757","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781892746757_s600x595.jpg?v=1775589565","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9781892746757","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}