Hysteria - Wikipedia Hysteria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Excess, ungovernable emotion An 1893 picture depicting a woman with hysteria For other uses, see Hysteria (disambiguation). Part of a series on Emotions Acceptance Affection Amusement Anger Angst Anguish Annoyance Anticipation Anxiety Apathy Arousal Awe Boredom Confidence Contempt Contentment Courage Curiosity Depression Desire Disappointment Disgust Distrust Doubt Ecstasy Embarrassment Empathy Enthusiasm Envy Euphoria Faith Fear Frustration Gratification Gratitude Greed Grief Guilt Happiness Hatred Hope Horror Hostility Humiliation Interest Jealousy Joy Kindness Loneliness Love Lust Nostalgia Outrage Panic Passion Pity Pleasure Pride Rage Regret Rejection Remorse Resentment Sadness Self-pity Shame Shock Shyness Social connection Sorrow Suffering Surprise Trust Wonder Worry v t e Hysteria is a pejorative term[1] that colloquially means ungovernable emotional excess and can refer to a temporary state of mind or emotion. In the 19th century, hysteria was considered a diagnosable physical illness in females. In the 20th century, it shifted to being considered a mental illness.[2] Many influential persons such as Sigmund Freud and Jean-Martin Charcot dedicated research to hysteria patients.[3] Currently, most doctors practicing Western medicine do not accept hysteria as a medical diagnosis.[4] The blanket diagnosis of hysteria has been fragmented into a myriad of medical categories such as epilepsy, histrionic personality disorder, conversion disorders, dissociative disorders, or other medical conditions.[4][5] Furthermore, social deviances, such as deciding not to wed, are no longer considered symptoms of psychological disorders such as hysteria. [4] Contents 1 History 2 Historical symptoms 3 Notable figures 3.1 Jean-Martin Charcot 3.2 Sigmund Freud 4 Modern perceptions 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links History[edit] The word hysteria originates from the Greek word for uterus, hystera.[4] The oldest record of hysteria dates back to 1900 B.C. when Egyptians recorded behavioral abnormalities in adult women on medical papyrus.[4] The Egyptians attributed the behavioral disturbances to a wandering uterus—thus later dubbing the condition hysteria.[4] To treat hysteria Egyptian doctors prescribed various medications.[4] For example, doctors put strong smelling substances on the patients’ vulvas to encourage the uterus to return to its proper position.[4] Another tactic was to smell or swallow unsavory herbs to encourage the uterus to flee back to the lower part of the female’s abdomen.[4] The ancient Greeks accepted the ancient Egyptians’ explanation for hysteria; however, they included in their definition of hysteria the inability to bear children or the failure to marry.[4] Ancient Romans also attributed hysteria to an abnormality in the womb; however, discarded the traditional explanation of a wandering uterus.[4] Instead, the ancient Romans credited hysteria to a disease of the womb or a disruption in reproduction (i.e. a miscarriage, menopause, etc.).[4] Hysteria theories from the ancient Egyptians, ancient Greeks, and ancient Romans were the basis of the Western understanding of hysteria.[4] Between the fifth and thirteenth centuries, however, the increasing influence of Christianity in the Latin West altered medical and public understanding of hysteria.[6] St. Augustine's writings suggested that human suffering resulted from sin, and thus, hysteria became perceived as satanic possession.[6] With the shift in perception of hysteria came a shift in treatment options.[6] Instead of admitting patients to a hospital, the church began treating patients through prayers, amulets, and exorcisms.[6] Furthermore, during the medieval and Renaissance periods many patients of hysteria were prosecuted as witches and underwent interrogations, torture, and execution.[6] However, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries activists and scholars worked to change the perception of hysteria back to a medical condition.[3] Particularly, French physician Charles Lepois insisted that hysteria was a malady of the brain.[7] In addition, in 1697, English physician Thomas Sydenham theorized that hysteria was an emotional condition, instead of a physical condition.[3] Many physicians followed Lepois and Sydenham's lead and hysteria became disassociated with the soul and the womb.[7] During this time period science started to focalize hysteria in the central nervous system.[7] As doctors developed a greater understanding of the human nervous system, the neurological model of hysteria was created, which further propelled the conception of hysteria as a mental disorder.[7] In 1859 Paul Briquet defined hysteria as a chronic syndrome manifesting in many unexplained symptoms throughout the body's organ systems.[8] What Briquet described became known as Briquet's syndrome, or Somatization disorders, in 1971.[9] Over a ten year period, Briquet conducted 430 case studies of patients with hysteria.[8] Following Briquet, Jean-Martin Charcot studied women in an asylum in France and used hypnosis as treatment.[3] He also mentored Pierre Janet, another French psychologist, who studied five of hysteria's symptoms (anesthesia, amnesia, abulia, motor control diseases, and character change) in depth and proposed that hysteria symptoms occurred due to a lapse in consciousness.[10] Both Charcot and Janet inspired Sigmund Freud's work.[11] Freud theorized hysteria stemmed from childhood sexual abuse or repression, and was also one of the first to apply hysteria to men.[11] During the 20th century, as psychiatry advanced in the West, anxiety and depression diagnoses began to replace hysteria diagnoses in Western countries.[3] For example, from 1949 to 1978 annual admissions of hysteria patients in England and Wales decreased by roughly two thirds.[3] With the decrease of hysteria patients in Western cultures came an increase in anxiety and depression patients.[3] Although declining in the West, in Eastern countries such as Sudan, Egypt, and Lebanon hysteria diagnoses remained consistent.[3] Theories for why hysteria diagnoses began to decline vary, but many historians infer that World War II, westernization, and migration shifted Western mental health expectations.[3][11] Twentieth century western societies expected depression and anxiety manifest itself more in post World War II generations and displaced individuals; and thus, individuals reported or were diagnosed accordingly.[3] In addition, medical advancements explained ailments that were previously attributed to hysteria such as epilepsy or infertility.[9] After a gradual decline in diagnoses and reports, in 1980 hysteria was removed from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), which had included hysteria as a mental disorder from its second publication in 1968.[9] Historical symptoms[edit] Historically, the symptoms of hysteria have a large range.[12][13][10] Hysteria Patient For example: Shortness of breath Anxiety Insomnia Fainting Amnesia Paralysis Pain Spasms Convulsive fits Vomiting Deafness Bizarre movements Seizures Hallucinations Inability to speak[12][13][10] Notable figures[edit] Jean-Martin Charcot[edit] In the late nineteenth century, French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, attempted to tackle what he referred to as, "the great neurosis" or hysteria.[14] Charcot theorized that hysteria was a hereditary, physiological disorder.[14] He believed hysteria impaired areas of the brain which provoked the physical symptoms displayed in each patient.[14] While Charcot believed hysteria was hereditary, he also thought that environmental factors such as stress could trigger hysteria in an individual.[15] Charcot published over 120 case studies of patients who he diagnosed with hysteria, including Marie "Blanche" Whittman.[16] Whittman was referred to as the "Queen of Hysterics," and remains the most famous patient of hysteria.[16] To treat his patients, Charcot used hypnosis, which he determined was only successful when used on hysterics.[16] Using patients as props, Charcot executed dramatic public demonstrations of hysterical patients and his cures for hysteria, which many suggest produced the hysterical phenomenon.[16] Furthermore, Charcot noted similarities between demon possession and hysteria, and thus, he concluded "demonomania" was a form of hysteria.[3] Sigmund Freud[edit] In 1896, Sigmund Freud, who was an Austrian psychiatrist, published "The Aetiology of Hysteria".[17] The paper explains how Freud believes his female patients' neurosis, which he labels hysteria, resulted from sexual abuse as children.[17] Freud named the concept of physical symptoms resulting from childhood trauma: hysterical conversion.[17] Freud hypothesized that in order to cure hysteria the patient must relive the experiences through imagination in the most vivid form while under light hypnosis.[17] However, Freud later changed his theory.[17] His new theory claimed that his patients imagined the instances of sexual abuse, which were instead repressed childhood fantasies.[17] By 1905 Freud retracted the theory of hysteria resulting from repressed childhood fantasies. Freud was also one of the first noted psychiatrist to attribute hysteria to men.[11] He diagnosed himself with hysteria--writing he feared his work exacerbated his condition.[11] Modern perceptions[edit] For the most part, hysteria does not exist as a medical diagnosis in Western culture and has been replaced by other diagnoses such as conversion or functional disorders.[18] The term hysterical, applied to an individual, can mean that they are emotional, irrationally upset, or frenzied.[19] When applied to a situation that does not involve panic, hysteria means that situation is uncontrollably amusing (the connotation being that it invokes hysterical laughter).[19] Hysteria can also impact groups, medically and colloquially referred to as mass hysteria or mass psychogenic illness.[4] Instances of mass hysteria have been recorded throughout history and continue to occur today.[4] See also[edit] Borderline personality disorder Histrionic personality disorder Hysterical contagion Body-centred countertransference Scotomization Somatization disorder Female hysteria Male hysteria Wandering womb References[edit] ^ Basavarajappa, Chethan, Dahale, Ajit, Desai, Geetha. Evolution of bodily distress disorders. Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2020;33(5):447-450. doi:10.1097/YCO.0000000000000630. ^ Beattie, Michael; Lenihan, Penny (2018). Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. p. 83. ISBN 9781785927416. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k North, Carol S. (November 6, 2015). "The Classification of Hysteria and Related Disorders: Historical and Phenomenological Considerations". Behavioral Sciences. 5 (4): 496–517. doi:10.3390/bs5040496. ISSN 2076-328X. PMC 4695775. PMID 26561836. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Micale, Mark S. (January 15, 2019). Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-60561-6. ^ Slater, Eliot (May 29, 1965). "Diagnosis of "Hysteria"". British Medical Journal. 1 (5447): 1395–1399. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5447.1395. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2166300. PMID 14286998. ^ a b c d e Abse, D. Wilfred (September 24, 2013). Hysteria and Related Mental Disorders: An Approach to Psychological Medicine. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-1-4832-2166-3. ^ a b c d Gilman, Sander Lawrence; Gilman, Sander L.; King, Helen; Porter, Roy; Rousseau, G. S.; Showalter, Elaine (January 1, 1993). Hysteria Beyond Freud. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-08064-5. ^ a b Mai, Francois M.; Merskey, Harold (February 1, 1981). "Briquet's Concept of Hysteria: An Historical Perspective". The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 26 (1): 57–63. doi:10.1177/070674378102600112. ISSN 0706-7437. PMID 7008930. S2CID 45207808. ^ a b c Winstead, Barbara Ann (1984), Widom, Cathy Spatz (ed.), Sex Roles and Psychopathology, Springer US, pp. 73–100, doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-4562-6_4, ISBN 978-1-4684-4562-6 Missing or empty |title= (help); |chapter= ignored (help) ^ a b c Janet, Pierre (1920). The Major Symptoms of Hysteria: Fifteen Lectures Given in the Medical School of Harvard University. Macmillan Company. ^ a b c d e Tasca, Cecilia; Rapetti, Mariangela; Carta, Mauro Giovanni; Fadda, Bianca (October 19, 2012). "Women And Hysteria In The History Of Mental Health". Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health: CP & EMH. 8: 110–119. doi:10.2174/1745017901208010110. ISSN 1745-0179. PMC 3480686. PMID 23115576. ^ a b Charcot, J.-M. (December 19, 2013). Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System (Psychology Revivals). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-91001-5. ^ a b King, Helen (January 4, 2002). Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-77221-6. ^ a b c da Mota Gomes, Marleide; Engelhardt, Eliasz; da Mota Gomes, Marleide; Engelhardt, Eliasz (2014). "A neurological bias in the history of hysteria: from the womb to the nervous system and Charcot". Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria. 72 (12): 972–975. doi:10.1590/0004-282X20140149. ISSN 0004-282X. PMID 25517645. ^ Evans, Martha (January 24, 2019). Fits and Starts: A Genealogy of Hysteria in Modern France. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-3431-1. ^ a b c d Hustvedt, Asti (May 23, 2011). Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-08217-3. ^ a b c d e f Eisen, Jonathan (January 1, 2001). Suppressed Inventions. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-399-52735-7. ^ Reynolds, Edward H. (2012). "Hysteria, conversion and functional disorders: a neurological contribution to classification issues". The British Journal of Psychiatry. 201 (4): 253–254. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.107219. ISSN 0007-1250. PMID 23028080. ^ a b "hysterical adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com". www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com. Retrieved May 1, 2020. Further reading[edit] Paul Briquet (1859). Traité clinique et thérapeutique de l’Hystérie from Gallica at BnF Chodoff, P. et al. (1982) Hysteria, John Wiley & Sons.[ISBN missing] Halligan, P.W., Bass, C., & Marshall, J.C. (Eds.) (2001) Contemporary Approach to the Study of Hysteria: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives, Oxford University Press Hennefeld, Maggie (December 2016). "Death from Laughter, Female Hysteria, and Early Cinema". differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Duke University Press. 27 (3): 45–92. doi:10.1215/10407391-3696631. Sander Gilman, Roy Porter, George Rousseau, Elaine Showalter, and Helen King (1993). Hysteria Beyond Freud, University of California Press[ISBN missing] Andrew Scull (2009) Hysteria. The Biography, Oxford University Press[ISBN missing] External links[edit] Is Hysteria Real? Brain Images Say Yes at the New York Times. 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