Hysteria

Hysteria is undoubtedly the first mental disorder attributable to women, accurately described in the second millennium BC, and until Freud considered it an exclusively female disease. Over 4000 years of history, this disease was considered from two perspectives: scientific and demonological. It was cured with herbs, sex, or sexual abstinence, punished and purified with fire for its association with sorcery, and finally, clinically studied as a disease and treated with innovative therapies. Later on, they use to lock women in rooms to 'cure' their madness. Most of the time men and families would leave the woman behind and never return. A lot of the time this cure would actually lead to wo...View all