Quotes about Hysteria

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Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What — L.J. Smith, Midnight
It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more dur — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdow — Abhijit Naskar
[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and und — Adam Gopnik
Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female disease, a mental illness th — Sady Doyle
The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in orde — Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, — Judith L. Alpert, Sexual Abuse Recalled
Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportunity to articulate e — Michael Salter, Organised Sexual Abuse
As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investigations throughout the — Michael Salter, Organised Sexual Abuse
There are a range of useful and illuminating analyses of the media construction of organised abuse as it became front-pa — Michael Salter, Organised Sexual Abuse
I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
It’s better not to hold your feelings inside too much and express them to a dear one freely, than to pay thousands of do — Abhijit Naskar, The Art of Neuroscience in Everything
As Mollie said to Dailey in the 1890s: "I am told that there are five other Mollie Fanchers, who together, make the whol — Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery
The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in — Michelle Stacey, The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery
I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to — Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in t — Michael Salter, Organised Sexual Abuse
Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse bas — Michael Salter, Organised Sexual Abuse
Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What — L.J. Smith, Midnight
Talkatives complain, cry, shout, brag, and are more hysterical about their lives than something else; don’t be a part of — Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes