- A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in
women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated,
and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient
loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of imaginary
sensations, and often falls into paroxism or fits.
Hysteria From the Greek word for 'womb' because it was originally thought that the emotional disturbances it described were exclusively female and caused by disorders of the womb
Conversion hysteria Conversion hysteria is the kind of hysteria, especially common in the early days of psychoanalysis, which converts psychological conflict
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