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We often see women, IAFAB, and especially Black and non-Black women of color portrayed as hysteric, dramatic, and abrasive when they are simply trying to advocate for their own wellbeing. History is not on their side in this matter, and hysteria is an excellent example.
Hysteria was focused on the belief that the very presence of a uterus must cause these symptoms; the term hysteria was even coined in ancient Greece from the word hystera, which meant womb. These damaging beliefs about women remained present throughout history and have greatly impacted how medicine is used to treat and diagnose individuals with uteruses.
A complex neurosis in which psychological conflict is turned into physical symptoms, such as amnesia, blindness, and paralysis, that have no underlying physical cause. Early in his career, Sigmund Freud worked on hysteria.
In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria's specific form. These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere.
Charcot did not stop at voyeuristic observation. Through techniques such as hypnosis, electroshock therapy, and genital manipulation, he instigated the hysterical symptoms in his patients, eventually giving rise to hatred and resistance on their part. Didi-Huberman follows this path from complicity to antipathy in one of Charcot's favorite "cases," that of Augustine, whose image crops up again and again in the Iconographie. Augustine's virtuosic performance of hysteria ultimately became one of self-sacrifice, seen in pictures of ecstasy, crucifixion, and silent cries.
During the late 1800s through the early 1900s, physicians administered pelvic massages involving clitoral stimulation by early electronic vibrators as treatments for what was called female hysteria. Until the early 1900s, physicians used female hysteria as a diagnosis for women who reported a wide range of complaints and symptoms unexplainable by any other diagnosis at the time. According to historian Rachel Maines, physicians provided pelvic massages for thousands of years to female patients without it being considered erotic or sexually stimulating. After the Western Industrial Revolution, physicians began using electric machines in medicine, including the medical vibrator, which researchers theorize was used to more efficiently bring women to a hysterical paroxysm, the former medical term for a female orgasm. Until the 1920s, physicians used vibrating massagers as medical devices for treating hysteria at a time when doctors diagnosed women with hysteria as a sweeping diagnosis.
As physicians began diagnosing hysteria during the 1800s and early 1900s, more women needed treatment, including many women whose husbands sent them to the doctor, according to Maines. According to historian Greer Theus of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, during the Victorian period of the 1800s, as literacy rates among women increased, doctors attributed higher rates of hysteria to the alleged dangerous behaviors of intellectual women, including attending school and working outside of the home. The 1899 edition of the Merck Manual, a medical reference book, listed pelvic and genital massage as a treatment for hysteria. Additionally, when commenting on treatments for hysterical women, twentieth century physician Samuel Howard Monell described gynecological pelvic massage as having positive results in treating hysteria.
During the nineteenth century, societies throughout the US and Europe experienced what historians refer to as the Industrial Revolution, during which efficient manufacturing processes combined with the recent discoveries of ways to harness electricity resulted in the production of many new machines and the emergence of electronic devices. The vibrating massager was one of the earliest invented electronic devices. The sewing machine was the first electronic home device, and according to Maines, the vibrating massager was the fifth, and preceded the vacuum cleaner by nine years. Around the same time as the Industrial Revolution, physicians began looking for more efficient ways to treat hysteria. In her book, The Technology of Orgasm, Maines presents her hypothesis that some physicians used and developed vibrating machines to treat women with hysteria to save time and to avoid the laborious task of manual massage on the increasing number of female patients. In her hypothesis, Maines presents evidence that physicians legitimized and justified the clinical production of hysterical paroxysm as a treatment for a disease, and hysterical women drove the market for vibrating massagers during the turn of the nineteenth century.
In the early 1880s, physician Mortimer Granville invented the first portable, battery-powered vibrator that weighed over forty pounds. However, Granville wrote in 1883 that he did not intend for his device to treat hysteria, and rather intended its use only for male muscle fatigue. According to Maines, Granville believed women might mimic hysterical symptoms in order to gain treatment, despite not needing it for medical reasons. In other words, Granville did not want women to have orgasms after using his vibrator device, according to Maines. According to reporter Natalie Angier, vibrating massage devices continued to appear in magazines during the early 1900s, some powered by electricity, foot pedal, water turbine, gas engine, or air pressure.
It never fails, does it ladies? The week starts off so smoothly and all of a sudden your womb starts wandering through your body. This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin help you find it as they explore the made up malady called hysteria.
It never fails, does it ladies? The week starts off so smoothly and all of a sudden your womb starts wandering through your body. This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin help you find it as they explore the made up malady called hysteria. (The secret? It was inside you all along.)
This historical essay outlines early ideas and clinical accounts of hysteria. It reproduces verbatim parts of a remarkable text of Thomas Sydenham. This provides the most detailed description of hysterical symptoms, contemporary treatment and particularly Sydenham's opinions about the nature of the disorder. His portrayal is compared to later and modern concepts and classification.
From the time of Greco-Roman Medicine, the uncertain nature of hysterical illness was a fertile source of controversy. Because there were no testable objective signs of disease, the diverse ideas relating hysteria to the uterus, psychological and physiological causes created persisting polemics. Theories fluctuated chaotically, influenced by social changes of prosperity or deprivation, contemporary attitudes and issues of gender.
Charcot (1825-1893) between 1872 and 1878 demonstrated a bewildering, theatrical spectrum of hysterical manifestations to awestruck audiences. Before Charcot, the varied symptoms were known [1] but there was little prescience of our ideas of conversion, dissociation and somatoform disorders with somatic symptoms and related disorders (DSM-V). Edward Jorden (1569-1632) in 1603 had written an important discourse [2] that dispelled supernatural and demonic agencies. Charcot's many predecessors, from Cheyne [3] to Sydenham and Willis [4] in the 17th century to Pinel [5], Briquet [6] and Bourneville [7] in the 19th century, conditioned and influenced his controversial studies on hysteria [1].
Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689; fig. 1) is renowned for many contributions to descriptive clinical Medicine that included podagra (gout), chorea sancti viti (St. Vitus' Dance), infectious fevers, chlorosis (iron deficiency anemia) and hysteria. His thoughts on hysteria are therefore of interest. I include unadulterated quotations to show both his observations and deductions.
Responding to the pleas for advice of a country physician, Dr. William Cole of Worcester, in 1681, Sydenham wrote a letter [13] entitled: Dissertatio epistolaris ad spectatissimum doctissimumque virum Gulielmum Cole, MD, de observationibus nuperis circa curationem variolarum confluentium, nec non de affectione hysterica. Lindaviae: Typis Theodori Hechtii, 1683. (Dissertation of a letter to a highly distinguished and learned man, William Cole, MD, on recent observations about the treatment of confluent smallpox and also of the affection of hysteria.)
The first part concerned the treatment of smallpox. The second part related to hysteria, which was considered one of his most important and original works [14,15] (fig. 3). His description shows notions, which in several aspects differ from those both of earlier and later physicians.
Sydenham's writings on psychological disorders have been extensively reviewed by Veith [19] and by Schneck [20]. His account of hysteria is a lengthy one, and if at times it appears repetitive it did convey a fresh approach with clear descriptions of its manifestations and an informed discussion about causative and precipitating factors in etiology and an appraisal of contemporary management. Like Edward Jorden (1569-1632) [2], he dispelled notions of demonic possession, divine affliction and witchcraft. He plainly indicated the fragility of personality and the lack of robustness as essential predisposing factors. This was a relatively new idea. He also clearly implicated psychological factors in causation: the dejection, dreadful anguish of mind and despair of recovery. Yet the mechanisms of production of symptoms Sydenham suggests are organic or physiological:
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