Quotes Tagged With :hysteria

The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized....

I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I....

This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood....

The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions....

Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female disease,....

The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other....

My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses,....

My very core clenches and spasms, my hips with a mind of their own, lurch. It is as if I no longer have....

It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time.....

The above is stereotypical FMS rhetoric. It employs a formulaic medley of factual distortions, exaggerations,....