Religious Stigmata, Magnetic Fluids and Conversion Hysteria

A study of Natuzza Evolo, a contemporary Roman Catholic stigmatic in southern Italy, raises certain questions of mechanism and evidence. Was this a miracle, hysterical conversion or contrived? The medical interpretation of the phenomenon as conversion disorder raises questions about the popularity of hysteria as a medical diagnosis and the ways in which it functions like 'vital forc', as a metaphoric mediator between the natural world, human agency, and the ultrahuman

Archaeology · Hysteria · Psychoanalysis · Stigmata · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

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