Quotes about Hysteric

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Taken from the dedication in my debut novel Exactly 23 days. To honour all women on International Women's day. For women — Jayne Higgins, Exactly 23 Days
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
A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever lovin — Rachilde, Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel
Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' l — Michael Salter, Organised Sexual Abuse
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
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I'm not crazy, I was abused. I'm not shy, I'm protecting myself. I'm not bitter, I'm speaking the truth. I'm not hanging — Rene Smith
It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early inve — Judith Lewis Herman, Father-Daughter Incest: With a New Afterword
Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to know why the case w — Joan Smith
DENIAL OF EMOTIONSOur culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fine. We learn rituals of act — John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You
Maybe it wasn’t rational, but she didn’t like the idea of Leo invading her little world. Yesterday, Brooklyn had belonge — Sarina Bowen, Rookie Move
Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open."And he makes his stunning entry!" Kelsie — Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
When preparing for Book One, I talked to a couple of psychiatrists about psychosomatic phenomena, neuroses and dissociat — Les Murray, Fredy Neptune
The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” — Richard P. Kluft
I still couldn't imagine that she was really, truly pregnant; maybe this was an hysterical pregnancy. But Sarah was neve — James Lileks, Falling Up the Stairs
No, I mean earlier. Where’d you go? You weren't here with me because no, nothing happened. I could see on your face that — Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Although the terminology implies scientific endorsement, false memory syndrome is not currently an accepted diagnostic l — Michelle R. Hebl