Stories
- Article
Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Hysteria'
Date: 1946-1949Reference: PP/MEL/C/99Part of: Mellanby, Sir Edward- Videos
Hysteria.
Date: Date unknown- Audio
- Online
Hysteria.
Date: 2004- Archives and manuscripts
Hysteria in Childhood
Date: 1938Reference: PP/BOW/K.10/87Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Books
Hysteria / edited by Alec Roy.
Date: [1982], ©1982