For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Dr Catherine Syengo Mutisya, a consultant psychiatrist, says hysteria is a psychiatric ...

The catch-all term "hysteria" was used by physicians ... was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...

The more people talked of the disorder, the more stressful the environment became. "Eventually when a mass hysteria happens," Taberski said, "the mass hysteria becomes the stress or the trauma." ...

Charcot took an interest in the malady then called hysteria. It seemed to be a mental disorder with physical manifestations, of immediate interest to a neurologist. He believed that hysteria was ...

all centring around the experience of hysteria." Katerina says she was experiencing what is now categorised as functional neurological disorder or non-epileptic seizures. "I experienced body ...