Christina Wald. Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia: Performative Maladies in Contemporary Anglophone Drama. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — Page 2:
6 Overall, this a welcome contribution to the Theatre and Performance list at Palgrave, and a noteworthy work as far as the meticulous integration of psychoanalytic and gender theory and performance analysis is concerned. The study is an invaluable survey of how "disorders" such as hysteria, melancholia and trauma have been represented in Anglophone theatre from the mid-nineties onwards. I warmly recommend the book to readers interested in exploring the interdisciplinary connotations of hysteria, trauma and melancholia, and to scholars and students in theatre studies, gender studies, cultural studies as well as the social history of medicine.