The term "hysteria" has been in use for more 2000 years and its definition has become broader and more diffuse over time. In modern psychology and psychiatry, hysteria is a feature of hysterical disorders in which a patient experiences physical...

(from Greek, hystera: the womb, which was thought by Hippocrates to cause hysteria by wandering about the body) Hysteria is a vague term used to describe disorders where patients complain of symptoms which do not appear to have adequate physical cause....

Hysteria, or somatization disorder, is a diagnostic label applied to a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses. The fear is often centered on a body part, most often on an imagined problem with that body part (disease is a common...

Remember the Soviet brigade in Cuba? In the summer of 1979, President Carter submitted the SALT II treaty to the Senate for ratification. At which point Sen. Frank Church, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, discovered a Soviet brigade in Cuba. To meet the...

JAMES AHEARN The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-18-1993 A PATTERN OF HYSTERIA By JAMES AHEARN Date: 04-18-1993, Sunday Section: REVIEW & OUTLOOK Edition: All Editions -- Sunday THE story is eerily familiar. The scene of the alleged crime is a nursery school...

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A former county employee leading an effort to recall Sheriff Lee Baca based on his handling of Paris Hilton's jail sentence has resigned.A statement Monday from The Committee to Recall Lee Baca said Andrew Ahlering's decision to step down was based on "threats to his...

In the excerpt that follows, Goldstein argues that during the nineteenth century the phenomenon of male hysteria was developed through opposing interpretations: the medical community used it to reinscribe conventional gender definitions, while writers subverted such norms by associating hysteria with the desire for androgyny.

In the excerpt that follows, Kahane examines several major works of literature to reveal the structure of hysteria as an aggressive act of self-expression.

In the excerpt that follows, Bewell discusses Wordsworth's use of the hysteric and her roots in the figure of the witch to examine the connection between language and the creative imagination.