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 ...
Author's abstract report of lectures delivered at the Harvard Medical School, Oct. 29 and 31, 1906. Select the format you want to export the citation of this publication.
All may have experienced mass psychogenic events—better known as hysteria. All also appear ... which takes us on a medical mystery tour of their symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments.
It's this medical history of hysteria which inspired the title of author Katerina Bryant's memoir. "So I started writing the book as I was experiencing symptoms both that I couldn't understand ...
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 ...