Spread from ‘Hysteria’ (2015), text by Richard Appignanesi, drawings by Oscar Zarate (all images courtesy Self Made Hero) Psychotherapy as we know it today wouldn’t exist without the so-called female ...

We’ve probably all heard it before: A woman expresses rage or grief and gets called hysterical. Another discloses sexual harassment or assault, and she also gets labeled hysterical. The tendency to ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

Read at the meeting of American Association of Physicians, May 10, 1904.

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The Greeks had a word for it: “hysterics.” They got the word from hystera, meaning womb, and they thought the trouble began when the womb strayed from its proper place. Naturally, they did not see how ...