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Asti Hustvedt, an editor and translator in New York City, was first drawn to the subject of hysteria while working on her doctorate in French at New York University. She aimed to write a ...

Many of the girls who were initially diagnosed by their own physicians were referred to pediatric neurologist Dr. Jennifer McVige and, later, to Mechtler, her supervising physician and vice president ...