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hysteria

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thumb|alt=refer to caption|An 1893 depiction of a woman with hysteria

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  • History
  • Historical symptoms
  • Historical treatment
  • Notable theorists
  • Charcot
  • Freud
  • Modern perceptions
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
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thumb|alt=refer to caption|An 1893 depiction of a woman with hysteria

Hysteria is a term used to mean ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion. In the nineteenth century, female hysteria was considered a diagnosable physical illness in women. It is assumed that the basis for diagnosis operated under the belief that women are predisposed to mental and behavioral conditions; an interpretation of sex-related differences in stress responses. In the twentieth century, it shifted to being considered a mental illness. Influential physicians the likes of Sigmund Freud and Jean-Martin Charcot had dedicated research to hysteria patients.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hysteria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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