After seeing hundreds of films each year—narratives, documentaries, and short films alike, and everything from remakes and/or sequels to original stories—every now and again, you come across a ...

This is part 3 of a three-part series. Part 1 explored how Victorian and contemporary medicine talked about hysteria and HSP, respectively, as sensorial-emotional maladies. Part 2 discussed the ...

On January 30th, 1962, an all-girls boarding school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, witnessed one of the oddest types of mass hysteria ever recorded in human history: The Laughter Epidemic. This epidemic, ...

Asti Hustvedt, an editor and translator in New York City, was first drawn to the subject of hysteria while working on her doctorate in French at New York University. She aimed to write a ...

Tanya Wexler’s “Hysteria” is just a simple little Victorian-era period film, full of pretty costumes and clever remarks, about the invention of the vibrator. Funny that Merchant-Ivory somehow never ...

This is part 3 of a three-part series. Part 1 explored how Victorian and contemporary medicine talked about hysteria and HSP, respectively, as sensorial-emotional maladies. Part 2 discussed the ...

ONE of us (S.B.G.) has been pursuing a series of studies to clarify the diagnostic features of hysteria and to learn more about its natural history. 1–3 We use the term hysteria to designate the ...

Doctors diagnosed hysteria in women who suffered from a variety of symptoms that resembled conditions ranging from depression and anxiety to schizophrenia or epilepsy. But doctors also linked ...