| Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux A unique account of a peasant girl's mental illness in nineteenth-century France Jan Goldstein is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Her books include The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 and Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century . |