Spread from ‘Hysteria’ (2015), text by Richard Appignanesi, drawings by Oscar Zarate (all images courtesy Self Made Hero) Psychotherapy as we know it today wouldn’t exist without the so-called female ...
We’ve probably all heard it before: A woman expresses rage or grief and gets called hysterical. Another discloses sexual harassment or assault, and she also gets labeled hysterical. The tendency to ...
The Greeks had a word for it: “hysterics.” They got the word from hystera, meaning womb, and they thought the trouble began when the womb strayed from its proper place. Naturally, they did not see how ...