CellWell record HH-523352
On constructing the disorder of hysteria
Allison DB; Roberts MS
The Journal of medicine and philosophy ยท 1994
In plain language
Tracing hysteria from Hippocrates to Freud, the authors argue the diagnosis functioned much like witch-hunting to suppress nonconforming, emotionally threatening female behavior, and it largely disappeared from psychiatric nosologies by the early twentieth century.
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