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 ...

Rachael Dodd has functional neurological disorder, a modern “hysteria” at the centre of a medical misogyny Venn diagram.

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 ...