Psychology Today

Managing High Sensitivity, Then and Now

This is part 3 of a three-part series. Part 1 explored how Victorian and contemporary medicine talked about hysteria and HSP, respectively, as sensorial-emotional maladies. Part 2 discussed the ...
The Conversation

From Marie Kondo’s tuning fork to vibrators for ‘hysteria’: a short, shaky history of curing with vibrations

You might remember how Gwyneth Paltrow’s health and well-being website Goop was selling “medical” products with no proven measurable health benefits. Decluttering expert Marie Kondo may be going down ...
Psychology Today

Psychology Today

This is part 3 of a three-part series. Part 1 explored how Victorian and contemporary medicine talked about hysteria and HSP, respectively, as sensorial-emotional maladies. Part 2 discussed the ...
Miami University

A66 - Hysteria, Hysterectomies, and Clitoridectomies: Not All Surgeries are Equal in Insanity

Experimentation and exploitation was commonplace in Nineteenth century medicine. Just shaking off the dust of miasma theory, scientists were eager to use the wonders of modern medicine to cure all ...
The New York Times

RATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY.; Hypnotism More Likely to Cause Than to Cure Hysteria.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...