In the middle of singing “All-American Bitch” on the Guts World Tour in Dallas, Texas, Olivia Rodrigo pauses. “Okay, here’s the deal,” she says. “When the lights go off, you have to think about ...

It’s a tale as old as time: A woman won’t conform to societal norms, traditional notions of femininity or what’s expected of her, and is dismissed as diseased. She’s considered hysterical. And, as ...

A selection from John Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare, 1781 Source: Wikimedia Commons Hysteria was the first mental disorder attributed to women, dating back more than 4,000 years. It evolved from a ...

When a woman goes crazy in a movie or on TV, we greet the sub-plot with a sigh of comfortable familiarity. Our intellectual subconscious breathes an “ahhhh.” We relax. We see what’s going on; we ...

Before "that time of the month" became a catch-all excuse for a woman's mood swings, there was another, stranger uterus-adjacent reason for female distress: hysteria. This wasn't just a misogynistic ...

The general public has long been steeped in the lore and lure of psychopathy. It is often bandied about in everyday conversation and is an easy throwaway term used to categorically dismiss someone as ...

A series of controversial lectures on 'female hysteria' given in Paris in the 1880s by the leading French neurologist of his day will be creatively re-enacted in music by French-British soprano and ...

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

Female Hysteria was a popular diagnosis in the Victorian days and Victorian doctors treated it with... a very hands-on approach. US chases a ‘Trumpian grand bargain’ with Iran as the message shifts ...