Engendering race: Jamaica, masculinity and the Great War by Smith, Richard William Peter

“…Elaine Showalter's discussion of "male hysteria" is developed to show that the prevalence of shell shock brought into question constructs of black masculinity. …”
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Mass psychogenic illness: an entity poorly studied in Mexico by Miguel Á. Martínez-Medina, Melissa Gastelum-Bernal, Yoseline Cruz-Robles

“…Outbreaks of mass psychogenic illness (MPI) or mass hysteria are common social phenomena worldwide, and Mexico has been no exception. …”
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Jaqueca asociada a trastorno de conversión (jaqueca de Babinski). Análisis de una serie de 43 casos by E. García-Albea

“…Diagnosis of conversion disorder (hysteria) was grounded in the criteria set forth in the DSM-IV. …”
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Migraine associated with conversion symptoms (Babinski's migraine): Evaluation of a series of 43 cases by E. García-Albea

“…Diagnosis of conversion disorder (hysteria) was grounded in the criteria set forth in the DSM-IV. …”
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Ethics and sport by Heda Festini

“…Solutions: - a call for an alignment of moral norms in all sectors of society - the regulation of free economic markets is a condition for the possibility of sports ' becoming recreational, that is, for sports to help gain physical strength and psychic energy, rather than producing a dangerous mass hysteria. …”
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The Prevalence of Personality Disorders among Emergency Nurses Based on MMPI-2 Questionnaire; a Cross-sectional Study by Parvin Kashani, Sahar Mirbaha, Mohammad Mehdi Forouzanfar, Farahnaz Meschi, Alireza Baratloo

“…</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The present study showed that somatization, hysteria, and pollyannaish were the most common personality disorders among the emergency nurses. …”
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The Prevalence of Personality Disorders among Emergency Nurses Based on MMPI-2 Questionnaire; a Cross-sectional Study by Parvin Kashani, Sahar Mirbaha, Mohammad Mehdi Forouzanfar, Farahnaz Meschi, Alireza Baratloo

“…Conclusion: The present study showed that somatization, hysteria, and pollyannaish were the most common personality disorders among the emergency nurses. …”
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Musical style of reception – a musical interpretant – musical form in literature by Aleksandra Reimann

“…Although the penetration of musical and literary correspondence does not threaten “scientist hysteria”, it also does not promise fruitful strategies and satisfactory conclusions. …”
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BSR 2019 Annual Meeting: Branding of Radiology to Medical Students by Nicolas De Vos, Martijn Grieten

“…Radiology faces several serious challenges: the mass hysteria on AI, the ever-increasing workload, the growth and ageing of the general population, the ageing of the radiology workforce, the limitation of the number of radiologists in training, the declining interest of medical students, … Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to promote or ‘brand’ radiology to medical students. …”
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The hysterical body. Madness and discipline in the contemporary dance by Roberto Giambrone

“…Disappeared from the medical manuals and hospitals, hysteria has come on stage. That is a natural result for a phenomenon born between the end of the 19th and the beginning of 20th century and plainly marked by theatrical characteristics. …”
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Henry James’s Spectral Archaeology by Stefano Evangelista

“…Looking, at the same time, back to Prosper Merimée’s use of the fantastic in “La Venus d’Ille” (1837) and forwards to Sigmund Freud’s parallel between archaeology and psychoanalysis in “The Aetiology of Hysteria” (1896), James sets up an intricate set of relations and metaphorical correspondences between stone and language, sculpture and literature, antiquity and modernity, aesthetics and psychology. …”
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Anti-White Slavery Legislation and its Legacies in England by Laura Lammasniemi

“…This paper argues that the foundation of modern anti-trafficking laws in England and Wales was created at the turn of the twentieth century, during the peak of white slavery hysteria. It shows that a series of interrelated legal interventions formed that foundation. …”
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Paul Richer: “un médicin, doublé d’un artiste” by Greta Plaitano

“…Taking into account his clinical formation at the Salpêtrière hospital, marked by the pictorial – and visual – approach of a teaching system that had just been revolutionized by the introduction of the anatomo-clinical method, it is possible to detect an epistemological démarche in which nosography blends with artistic mediums in the diagnosis of the “elusive” hysteria, leading to the production of groundbreaking œuvres d’art scientifiques. …”
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Evaluation of the Executive Functioning and Psychological Adjustment of Child-to-Parent Offenders: Epidemiology and Quantification of Harm by Ricardo Fandiño, Juan Basanta, Jéssica Sanmarco, Jéssica Sanmarco, Ramón Arce, Ramón Arce, Francisca Fariña

“…Epidemiologically, the prevalence rates of clinical deterioration were significantly greater than expected (0.05 in normative sample) in hypochondria (28.0%), depression (29.3%), hysteria (29.3%), psychopathic deviation (60%), paranoia (30.7%), psychasthenia (22.7%), and schizophrenia (25.3%). …”
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كینث برنارد ومسرح التفاھة والھزل: صورة مصغرة لعالم مفكّك ومنھار by الدكتورة منى العلوان

“…It makes use of mass culture entertainment in America (television, popular songs, old movies, the circus) in its attempt to make us recognize the world as “ridiculous,” a world which is both brutal and farcically trivial and insignificant, a world of ruthless powers, of freaks, clowns, and victims, of hysteria and absence of truth, a world, as Bernard describes it, “without hope, mercy, history, or any saving sociology or ideology.” …”
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Photophonics by Steven Connor

“…That one of the most important imaginary diseases of the fin-de-siècle was the condition known as ‘conversion hysteria’ is perhaps a sign of how far-reaching this enthusiasm was for the idea of translated energies and outputs. …”
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Dissociation and the Unconscious Mind: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on Mediumship by Carlos S. Alvarado

“…The speculations of these individuals, involving personation, and different memory states, were part of a general interest in the unconscious mind, and in automatisms, hysteria, and hypnosis during the period in question. …”
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Redefining the Terms of National Belonging in War and Peace in Randolph Bourne’s Critique of the Great War by Maria José Canelo

“…He looked well beyond nationalist hysteria and economic imperialism to examine the reasons for the State to support militarism, but he also sought concrete pacifist alternatives to the U.S. intervention in the war that involved the intellectuals in particular. …”
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Déjà vu latinoamericano by Raffaele Nocera

“…Suddenly the Latin American region is represented as an exotic land, victim of an unmotivated collective hysteria that overwhelms everything with its devastating fury, institutions, societies, economies. …”
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Selections Prom the Writing of Laura (Riding) Jackson Selections Prom the Writing of Laura (Riding) Jackson by Anita Flanders Rebelo

“….&#13; which in the end contributes nothing to the,reader", and sweetly belittled and debunked her ex-"pal" Hart Crane, atributing". . . habitual disorganized private behavior, a crazy-pattern dominated by drunken exuberance verging on hysteria and desperately wilful excursions into homosexual experience. . . to be a consequence of gradual resort to forced spontaneity. . ."…”
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