O nervosismo como categoria nosográfica no começo do século XX

Abstract

The paper presents the conceptual framework surrounding the category of nervousness in Brazilian psychiatry in the early twentieth century as represented in an article by Henrique Roxo published in Arquivos Brasileiros de Psiquiatria, Neurologia e Medicina Legal in 1916, and contextualizes it in the history of psychiatric classifications and representations about nerves and the nervous system. As such, it intends to contribute towards mapping out physicalistic naturalism (or epiphenomenalism), which can be seen throughout the representations of the human person and their disturbances in modern western culture.

Health and work in Brazil: physical and psychosocial demands

“…The nervousness is a possible manifestation in the causal chain of occupational stress, besides reproducing the manifestation of anxiety in common sense. Generally, nervousness is a manifestation of the nervous system, represented by a shaken behavior 25 .…”

Os paulistanos, "ianques do sul", e a "doença moderna", a neurastenia, nas primeiras décadas do século XX

“…(ver, p. ex., Austregésilo, 1919;Duarte, 2010;Roxo 1912Roxo , 1919. Essas incertezas por parte da classe 9 9 médica ofereciam aos doentes possibilidades individuais de acesso.…”