Hysteria (disambiguation)

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Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses.

Hysteria may also refer to:

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[edit] Psychology

  • Histrionic personality disorder, the replacement for the term hysteria in formal diagnostic manuals
  • Female hysteria, a formerly common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is no longer recognized by modern medical authorities
  • Discourse of the hysteric, one of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's Four discourses

[edit] Music

[edit] Television, film and theatre

[edit] Botany

  • Hysteria Reinw. is a synonym of Corymborkis, an orchid genus

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