hysteria
outdated diagnostic category used to pathologize mainly women with unmanageable fear or emotional excesses
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Summary
hysteria is a disease[1]. hysteria ranks in the top 4% of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,918 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: personality trait[3]
- Subclass of: neurosis[4], negative emotion[5]
- Part of: psychological terminology[6]
- Commons category: Hysteria[7]
- Said to be the same as: histrionic personality disorder[8]
- ICPC 2 ID: P75[9]
- Topic's main category: Category:Hysteria[10]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[15]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C34721[16]
- Measurement scale: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory[17]
- Different from: Histeria[18], histrionic personality disorder[19]
- Health specialty: psychiatry[20], psychology[21]
- Studied by: psychoanalysis[22]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Art+Feminism[23]
- P14439: 000846[24]
Why It Matters
hysteria has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] hysteria is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]