Psychotropes et hystérie à la Salpêtrière, le cas de Célina Marcil (1870-1879)
Célina Marcil…, a 27-year-old laundress, had been interned at the Salpêtrière hospital since 1867. Diagnosed as hysterical, suffering from vaginismus, she suffered extremely violent attacks. In order to relieve her and to keep the ward calm, the hospital’s alienists were in the habit of generously p...
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| description | Célina Marcil…, a 27-year-old laundress, had been interned at the Salpêtrière hospital since 1867. Diagnosed as hysterical, suffering from vaginismus, she suffered extremely violent attacks. In order to relieve her and to keep the ward calm, the hospital’s alienists were in the habit of generously providing sedatives such as ether or morphine to their patients. Her doctors therefore administered high doses of psychotropic drugs which in fact exacerbated her erotic delusions, meticulously transcribed in her case study. Within a coercive institution and under the libidinous glance of the medical staff, Celina Marcil nevertheless showed a certain capacity for action. Demanding to the point of violence that her doctors provide her with the desired quantities of ether or morphine, using them to intensify her voluptuous reactions, using ether to achieve the sexual pleasure impossible to reach with her lover, the young woman managed for a time to adapt to her condition. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-303eff8906844be598b6ec1c58cc3bf02025-08-20T02:37:06ZfraAssociation MnémosyneGenre & Histoire2102-58862023-12-013210.4000/genrehistoire.8428Psychotropes et hystérie à la Salpêtrière, le cas de Célina Marcil (1870-1879)Zoë DubusCélina Marcil…, a 27-year-old laundress, had been interned at the Salpêtrière hospital since 1867. Diagnosed as hysterical, suffering from vaginismus, she suffered extremely violent attacks. In order to relieve her and to keep the ward calm, the hospital’s alienists were in the habit of generously providing sedatives such as ether or morphine to their patients. Her doctors therefore administered high doses of psychotropic drugs which in fact exacerbated her erotic delusions, meticulously transcribed in her case study. Within a coercive institution and under the libidinous glance of the medical staff, Celina Marcil nevertheless showed a certain capacity for action. Demanding to the point of violence that her doctors provide her with the desired quantities of ether or morphine, using them to intensify her voluptuous reactions, using ether to achieve the sexual pleasure impossible to reach with her lover, the young woman managed for a time to adapt to her condition.https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/8428Francenineteenth centuryhysteriapsychotropic drugshistory of medicine |
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| title | Psychotropes et hystérie à la Salpêtrière, le cas de Célina Marcil (1870-1879) |
| title_full | Psychotropes et hystérie à la Salpêtrière, le cas de Célina Marcil (1870-1879) |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Psychotropes et hystérie à la Salpêtrière, le cas de Célina Marcil (1870-1879) |
| title_short | Psychotropes et hystérie à la Salpêtrière, le cas de Célina Marcil (1870-1879) |
| title_sort | psychotropes et hysterie a la salpetriere le cas de celina marcil 1870 1879 |
| topic | France nineteenth century hysteria psychotropic drugs history of medicine |
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