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Hysteria
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This article is about the state of mind. For other uses, see
Hysteria (disambiguation).
"Hysterical" redirects here. For the film, see
Hysterical (1983 film).
Women under hysteria.
Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable
emotional excesses. People who are "hysterical" often lose self-control due to an overwhelming fear that may be caused by multiple events in one's past that involved some sort of severe conflict; the fear can be centered on a body part, or, most commonly, on an imagined problem with that body part.
Disease is a common complaint; see also
Body dysmorphic disorder and
Hypochondriasis. Generally, modern medical professionals have given up the use of "hysteria" as a diagnostic category, replacing it with more precisely defined categories such as
somatization disorder. In 1980, the
American Psychiatric Association officially changed the diagnosis of "hysterical neurosis, conversion type" to "
conversion disorder".
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Female hysteria
In the The Hippocratic corpus refer to a variety of illness symptoms, such as suffocation and Heracles' disease, that were supposedly caused by the movement of a woman's uterus to various locations within her body as it became light and dry due to a lack of bodily fluids. One passage recommends pregnancy to cure such symptoms, ostensibly because intercourse will "moisten" the womb and facilitate blood circulation within the body.
By the mid to late 19th century, hysteria (or sometimes Typical treatment was massage of the patient's genitalia by the physician and, later, by
A more modern understanding of hysteria as a psychological disorder was advanced by the work of
Jean-Martin Charcot, a French neurologist. In his 1893 obituary of Charcot,
Sigmund Freud attributed the rehabilitation of hysteria as a topic for scientific study to the positive attention generated by Charcot?s neuropathological investigation...
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