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==Origin==

==Origin==

New Latin, from [[English]] hysteric, adjective, from [[Latin]] hystericus, from [[Greek]] hysterikos, from hystera [[womb]]; from the Greek notion that hysteria was peculiar to [[women]] and caused by disturbances of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterus uterus]

New Latin, from [[English]] hysteric, adjective, from [[Latin]] hystericus, from [[Greek]] hysterikos, from hystera [[womb]]; from the Greek notion that hysteria was peculiar to [[women]] and caused by disturbances of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterus uterus]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 1801]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 1801]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1: a psychoneurosis marked by [[emotional]] excitability and disturbances of the [[psychic]], sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions

*1: a psychoneurosis marked by [[emotional]] excitability and disturbances of the [[psychic]], sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions

*2: [[behavior]] exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or [[emotional]] excess <[[political]] hysteria>  

*2: [[behavior]] exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or [[emotional]] excess <[[political]] hysteria>  

==Description==

==Description==

'''Hysteria''', in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable [[emotional]] [[Extreme|excesses]]. People who are "hysterical" often lose [[self]]-[[control]] due to an overwhelming [[fear]] that may be caused by multiple [[events]] in one's [[past]] that involved some sort of severe [[conflict]]; the fear can be centered on a [[body]] part, or, most commonly, on an [[imagined]] [[problem]] with that body part. [[Disease]] is a common complaint; see also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder Body dysmorphic disorder] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochondriasis Hypochondriasis]. Generally, [[modern]] medical [[professional]]s have given up the use of "hysteria" as a diagnostic category, replacing it with more precisely defined categories such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatization_disorder somatization disorder]. In 1980, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychiatric_Association American Psychiatric Association] officially changed the [[diagnosis]] of "hysterical neurosis, conversion type" to "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_disorder conversion disorder]".

'''Hysteria''', in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable [[emotional]] [[Extreme|excesses]]. People who are "hysterical" often lose [[self]]-[[control]] due to an overwhelming [[fear]] that may be caused by multiple [[events]] in one's [[past]] that involved some sort of severe [[conflict]]; the fear can be centered on a [[body]] part, or, most commonly, on an [[imagined]] [[problem]] with that body part. [[Disease]] is a common complaint; see also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder Body dysmorphic disorder] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochondriasis Hypochondriasis]. Generally, [[modern]] medical [[professional]]s have given up the use of "hysteria" as a diagnostic category, replacing it with more precisely defined categories such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatization_disorder somatization disorder]. In 1980, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychiatric_Association American Psychiatric Association] officially changed the [[diagnosis]] of "hysterical neurosis, conversion type" to "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_disorder conversion disorder]".

The term also occurs in the phrase ''mass hysteria'' to describe mass [[public]] near-[[panic]] [[reactions]]. It is commonly applied to the [[waves]] of [[popular]] medical [[problems]] that "everyone gets" in [[response]] to news articles. A similar usage refers to any sort of "public wave" [[phenomenon]], and has been used to describe the periodic widespread reappearance and public interest in [[UFO]] reports, [[crop circles]], and similar examples. Hysteria was often associated with [[events]] like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Witch_Trials Salem Witch Trials], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_revolt slave revolt] conspiracies, where it is better [[understood]] through the related sociological term of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic moral panic].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria]

The term also occurs in the phrase ''mass hysteria'' to describe mass [[public]] near-[[panic]] [[reactions]]. It is commonly applied to the [[waves]] of [[popular]] medical [[problems]] that "everyone gets" in [[response]] to news articles. A similar usage refers to any sort of "public wave" [[phenomenon]], and has been used to describe the periodic widespread reappearance and public interest in [[UFO]] reports, [[crop circles]], and similar examples. Hysteria was often associated with [[events]] like the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Witch_Trials Salem Witch Trials], or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_revolt slave revolt] conspiracies, where it is better [[understood]] through the related sociological term of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic moral panic].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria]

[[Category: Psychology]]

[[Category: Psychology]]