@article{Simonazzi_2016, title={Bernard Mandeville on hypochondria and self-liking}, volume={9}, url={https://ejpe.org/journal/article/view/213}, DOI={10.23941/ejpe.v9i1.213}, abstractNote={<p>This article analyses how Mandeville’s <em>Treatise of the hypochodriack and hysterick passions</em> (1711) was received in the medical environment, and I show that this work, in spite of being unusual and of a satirical nature, was seriously read and studied by eighteenth-century physicians. In the second part I will describe hypochondria as it is intended in the <em>Treatise</em>, with particular attention to talking therapy. In the third part I will show that in the <em>Fable of the bees</em> and in the <em>Enquiry into the origin of honour</em> hypochondria is associated with a frustration of the desire to be esteemed, and that in light of the theory of self-liking expressed in the <em>Fable</em>, it is possible to account for talking therapy’s effectiveness as theorised in the <em>Treatise</em>.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics}, author={Simonazzi, Mauro}, year={2016}, month={Mar.}, pages={62–81} }