Hysteria (disambiguation)

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

Hysteria may also refer to:

Psychology

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

Music

Television, film and theatre

Publication

Botany

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

See also

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