A dramatic contrast, for example, to the usual treatment (such as that of Charcot) of women with hysteria, who were treated as if they were simply anatomical specimens. On October 14, 1900 ...

as women back then also received less aggressive treatments for their pain than their male counterparts. In the 19th century, “hysteria” was a catch-all diagnosis for women who reported any ...

narrator Bethany Cutmore-Scott explains the incredibly misogynistic origins and history of “hysteria”, noting that the word ...

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 ...