Les démoniaques dans l'art: Charcot and the "hysterical saints".
Léo CoutinhoMarlon Wycliff CaeiraLuciano de PaolaOlivier WalusinskiFrancisco Eduardo Costa CardosoPlinio Marcos Garcia de LimaHélio Augusto Guizoni TeivePublished in: Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (2022)
Professor Jean-Martin Charcot was the founder of clinical neurology and one of the prominent researchers in the field of hysteria in the 19 th century. His book Les démoniaques dans l'art is a representation of hysterical symptoms in religion and religious art. This paper aims to discuss Charcot's descriptions of hysteria in religion and his "hysterical saints".