![]() Shope is quick to point out that this is not historical fiction, but experimental fiction based on historical figures. (According to contemporary diagnoses, Augustine’s symptoms were likely a result of post-traumatic stress disorder, brought about by sexual abuse as a young person.) Charcot.Ĭharcot made Augustine famous by publicly exhibiting her symptoms as hysteria while she was a patient at Salpêtrière Hospital in the 13th arrondissement. Set in a 19th-century Parisian hospital, Shope’s debut novel, Asylum, imagines the relationship between real-life patient Louise Augustine Gleizes and well-known French neurologist J.M. ![]() ![]() It would be nice to say that society has advanced well beyond the days of tormenting women, says Denver-based author Nina Shope, “but we’re obviously still struggling to allow women to claim full autonomy over their bodies and their reproductive system, which is very depressing.” Not that long ago, women were diagnosed with hysteria, kept in asylums and subjected to all manner of strange medical procedures to “cure” them. ![]()
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