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

gets a job with Dr Dalrymple, who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages which allow orgasm. The handsome young doctor attracts a large female clientele and ...

Things aren’t working well,” Dodd said she told the doctor ... possession, hysteria or witchcraft” up to the 19th century, with “uterine repositioning” a proposed treatment historically.

Freud never met her, but Breuer's account of her treatment helped convince him that hysteria was connected to the slumbering imagination. Bertha would be the first person to experience what she ...

“You think back to 1981, there was a lot of hysteria ... treatment. “His work, really from start to finish, is what helped us understand: What is HIV? What does it do to people?” said Dr.