Dr Catherine Syengo Mutisya, a consultant psychiatrist, says hysteria is a psychiatric disorder in which a person exhibits physical symptoms with a psychological origin. Instead of verbalising ...

A new podcast explores a mysterious case of teens developing Tourette syndrome–like tics and other cases of suspected mass ...

When she recounted her ailments - shortness of breath, dizziness, a crushing feeling in her chest, a choking in her throat - Freud was convinced that she suffered from hysteria. Her symptoms first ...

Women may struggle to get diagnoses for health problems, including sleep apnea and heart conditions, early enough if their ...

Mass hysteria – otherwise known as epidemic hysteria, psychogenic epidemic, or mass psychogenic illness – is characterized by the spread of symptoms through a population, where there is no infectious ...