Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis for women. It was described as exhibiting a wide array of symptoms, including anxiety, shortness of...

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...

associated with (gender stereotypes of) females and female sexuality in the minds of physicians.: 24  Hysteria was joined in 1866 by a diagnosis for a...

film Hysteria features a reworked history of the vibrator focusing on Joseph Mortimer Granville's invention, and the treatment of female hysteria through...

Europe, women could be medically diagnosed with a disorder called female hysteria, the symptoms of which included faintness, nervousness, insomnia, fluid...

S2CID 38228923. Fitzharris, Lindsey (2017-04-28). "The Wandering Womb: Female Hysteria through the Ages". Dr Lindsey Fitzharris. Retrieved 2019-12-31. Aretaeus...

mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria or mass hysteria, involves the spread of illness symptoms through a population...

neurasthenic females ejaculation It is also described by Freud in pathological terms in his study of Dora (1905), where he relates it to hysteria. The pride...

treatment for suffocation ex semine retento (suffocation of the womb), female hysteria or green sickness. Methods included a midwife rubbing the walls of the...

 'suffocation from retained seed'), green sickness, and possibly for female hysteria. Reported methods for treatment included a midwife rubbing the walls...

empirical confirmation. Some theories, such as Lysenkoism, race science or female hysteria have been generated for political rather than empirical reasons and...

founding evidence of physical diseases such as "womb-fury", i.e., (female) hysteria. If not cured, womb-fury would, according to doctors practicing at...

emanations (vapours) from the womb, it was related to the concept of female hysteria. The word "vapours" was subsequently used to describe a depressed or...

woman to orgasm by a physician or midwife was a standard treatment for female hysteria, an ailment considered common and chronic in women. In 1653, Pieter...

He said, "Stevenson leans too heavily on the old horror staple of female hysteria and the explanation behind the plot to spawn a tiny Antichrist is the...

In sociology and psychology, mass hysteria is a phenomenon that transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a population...

rapidly became popular for treating hysteria." Maines, Rachel P. (2012). "Vibrators and hysteria: How a Cure Became a Female Sexual Icon". The Conversation...

the womb and released during climax. Retention was believed to cause female hysteria. In ancient Greek religion as a whole, semen is considered a form of...

key feature in their recognition.[citation needed] BPPV Convulsion Female hysteria for "hysterical paroxysm" Relapse or remission, where symptoms become...

Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females (1866), doctors in London accused him of quackery and expelled him...

individual. It may manifest as mental ailments such as neurosis, hysteria, "female hysteria", or personality disorder. The first stage of psychosexual development...

Oxford University professor demonstrates a patient with a case of female hysteria, Eliza Graves, before his class, including a young man. Though the...

'self-defeating', comparing this attitude to the historical misdiagnosis of female hysteria. However, those who develop C-PTSD do so as a result of the intensity...

films of its era, Fear in the Night has been noted for its usage of female hysteria as a central narrative motif, and was released as a double bill in...

vibrators were initially invented as medical devices for treating female hysteria. In the 1950s, they became more readily available for sexual pleasure...

woman being the lead role. It also plays into those themes of Black female hysteria and people not believing Black women or people of color when we say...

Atcheson, a colleague who believes that the young woman is suffering from female hysteria. As her treatment progresses, Sybil confesses that she frequently experiences...

psychological, not physiological ailments. Female hysteria Uterine massage "Victorian doctors were not using vibrators on female patients – it was even stranger...

unspecified neurological symptoms. Conversion disorder, originally known as Hysteria and now known as Functional Neurologic Symptom Disorder, presents symptoms...

repeatedly ignores the female students until Tess can bear no more and challenges him. Maudsley takes this as evidence of female hysteria and demands that she...