Rachael Dodd has functional neurological disorder (FND): a modern hysteria at the centre of a medical misogyny Venn diagram.

Dr Catherine Syengo Mutisya, a consultant psychiatrist, says hysteria is a psychiatric disorder in which a person exhibits physical symptoms with a psychological origin. Instead of verbalising ...

The more people talked of the disorder, the more stressful the environment became. "Eventually when a mass hysteria happens," Taberski said, "the mass hysteria becomes the stress or the trauma." ...

The catch-all term "hysteria" was used by physicians ... was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ...

The disorder remains poorly understood ... or what used to be known as mass hysteria, a term that has fallen out of favor because of its sexist connotations. These outbreaks, which typically ...

Charcot took an interest in the malady then called hysteria. It seemed to be a mental disorder with physical manifestations, of immediate interest to a neurologist. He believed that hysteria was ...

FND can manifest as spontaneous seizures, movement disorders, pain ... demonic possession, hysteria or witchcraft” up to the 19th century, with “uterine repositioning” a proposed treatment ...