Contents -- Preface -- Note on Terms -- 1 An Elusive Syndrome -- 2 The Case of the Cursing Marquise -- 3 A Disputed Illness -- 4 The Case of "O." and the Emergence of Psychoanalysis -- 5 Competing Claims -- 6 The Disappearance of Tic Illness -- 7 Margaret Mahler and the Tic Syndrome -- 8 Haloperidol and the Persistence of the Psychogenic Frame -- 9 The French Resistance -- 10 The Triumph of the Organic Narrative -- 11 Clashing Cultural Conceptions -- 12 Clinical Lessons -- Glossary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.