What is hysteria? Wellcome Collection

Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies

A Simulated Plague”

From Masturbation to Morphine — History's Weirdest Cures for Hysteria, by Carlyn Beccia, The Grim Historian

Misdiagnosing Women: A History of Hysteria and Mental Health Care since Ancient Greece – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas

Hysteria – Wellcome Collection Blog

Cultural confusion: the shifting line between sane and 'unsane' - STAT

File:Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrating hysteria in a patient at t Wellcome M0013879.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Ayurvedic Medicine, Female Hysteria Metal Print by Wellcome Images - Fine Art America

Women's Health: Fashion and the 'Weaker Sex

Morbid Anatomy: A New and Perfect Book on Hysteria: Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Asti Hustvedt, 2011

above right): 'Hystero-Epilepsy: Contracture' , Photograph by Paul

Pox and Paranoia in Renaissance Europe

Sex at centre of new exhibition

See These Disturbing Photos from the 19th Century Parisian Asylum and Women's Hospice: La Salpêtrière – CVLT Nation

What is hysteria? Wellcome Collection