Hysteria hasn't disappeared From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: September 27, 2006| Author: Erika Kinetz New York Times News Service | Copyright 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Hysteria is a 4,000-year-old diagnosis that has been applied to no mean parade of witches, saints and, of course, Anna O.

But over the past 50 years, the word has been spoken less and less. The disappearance of hysteria has been heralded at least since the 1960s. What had been a Victorian catch-all splintered into many different diagnoses. Hysteria seemed to be a vanished 19th-century extravagance useful for literary analysis but surely out of place in the serious reaches of contempora...

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