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'The hysteric's questions - What do I want? What do others want from me? What is my place in society? - are emerging with a vengeance in our neo-liberal times. Social changes and new technologies are shaping the neurotic symptoms people suffer from. This collection of essays finally gives us important insight into the way malaise of the civilization affects malaise of the individual and vice versa. To understand hysteria today is an important step in figuring out social and political deadlocks in contemporary life. Anyone who is trying to understand why there is so much unhappiness in times that glorify choice, efficiency and satisfaction, should dive into this important book.'- Renata Salecl, Birkbeck College, London, author of The Tyranny of Choice'This is an essential book for anyone interested in the ways we all struggle with language. Every writer in this dazzling, scholarly collection of essays has taught me something new about how hysteria continues to haunt the 21st century. Hysteria, like subjectivity, did not die in the 1890s. Hysteria is dead! Long live hysteria!'- Deborah Levy, author of Swimming Home (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize)

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Anouchka Grose is a psychoanalyst and writer practising in London. She is a member of CFAR and The College of Psychoanalysts-UK. She has written non-fiction: 'No More Silly Love Songs: a realist's guide to romance' (Portobello, 2010) and 'Are you Considering Therapy' (Karnac, 2011), as well as writing fiction: 'Ringing for You' (Harper Collins, 1999) and 'Darling Daisy' (Harper Collins, 2000). She is the editor of 'Hysteria Today' (2015), a collection of essays on hysteria in the contemporary psychoanalytic clinic. Her journalism is published in The Guardian, and she also writes for numerous art and fashion publications. She has taught at Camberwell School of Art and gives talks on art and psychoanalysis in museums and galleries, as well as sometimes speaking on the radio.

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