{"quotes":[{"text":"I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I have very vague impressions of those days because it was a time of complete darkness for me. Somebody told me later that what I had was a form of hysteria: my body and my mid fled into paralysis. There was nothing wrong with me organically, but somewhere inside I suffered a complete breakdown.","author":"Diet Eman","tags":["breakdown","darkness","hysteria","mind-power","paralysis","psychology","realism"],"id":36957,"author_id":"Diet+Eman"},{"text":"It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drove them forward.","author":"Adolf Hitler","tags":["aversion","crowd-control","crowds","domination","faith","fanaticism","hatred","hitler","hypnosis","hysteria","knowledge","love","mass-suggestion","nazis","psychology","respect"],"id":53372,"author_id":"Adolf+Hitler"},{"text":"The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases – was transformed, through hypnosis, into an artificial hysteric who perfectly simulated the simulations of hysteria. The medical photograph becomes a copy of a copy of a copy, a representation so far removed from the original that all duplicitous traits, were easily erased, leaving the deranged and chaotic nature of the original far behind. The photograph succeeded in turning the hysteric into a wholly artificial being, literally a flat, framed, unmoving image.","author":"Asti Hustvedt","tags":["hysteria","hysterics","image","photograph","women"],"id":63776,"author_id":"Asti+Hustvedt"},{"text":"When preparing for Book One, I talked to a couple of psychiatrists about psychosomatic phenomena, neuroses and dissociative conditions, for example the so—called hysterical blindness suffered by many who saw the Killing Fields in Pol Pot’s Cambodia: their eyes objectively see, but they are not aware of it and are blind because they believe they can’t see. One specialist told me that among modern Western people, ’metaphorical’ symptoms such as Fredy or those Cambodians evince are much rarer now than earlier in the twentieth century or before. Nowadays most people are better equipped by education to verbalise their neuroses, and have lots of jargon in which to do so. For most of the dissociative dimension, I could draw on things I knew from within myself.","author":"Les Murray","tags":["blindness","conversion-disorder","dissociation","dissociative","hysteria","hysterical-dissociation","mental-disorder","mental-illness","neuoroses","neurosis","neuroticism","pol-pot","psychogenic","psychosomatic","trauma","trauma-survivors","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatized"],"id":92364,"author_id":"Les+Murray"},{"text":"Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["confusion","hysteria","love"],"id":114433,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["hysteria","ignorance"],"id":134980,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.","author":"Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius","tags":["anxiety","fear","hysteria"],"id":166755,"author_id":"Vejas+Gabriel+Liulevicius"},{"text":"The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and “dropped” from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association is false and misleading. Many if not most diagnostic entities have been renamed or have had their names modified as psychiatry changes in its conceptualizations and classifications of mental illnesses. When the DSM decided to go with “Dissociative Identity Disorder” it put “(formerly multiple personality disorder)” right after the new name to signify that it was the same condition. It’s right there on page 526 of DSM-IV-R. There have been four different names for this condition in the DSMs over the course of my career. I was part of the group that developed and wrote successive descriptions and diagnostic criteria for this condition for DSM-III-R, DSM–IV, and DSM-IV-TR.While some patients have been hurt by the impact of material that proves to be inaccurate, there is no evidence that scientifically demonstrates the prevalence of such events. Most material alleged to be false has been disputed by someone, but has not been proven false.Finally, however intriguing the idea of encouraging forgetting troubling material may seem, there is no evidence that it is either effective or safe as a general approach to treatment. There is considerable belief that when such material is put out of mind, it creates symptoms indirectly, from “behind the scenes.” Ironically, such efforts purport to cure some dissociative phenomena by encouraging others, such as Dissociative Amnesia.","author":"Richard P. Kluft","tags":["diagnosis","disinformation","dissociative-amnesia","dissociative-identity-disorder","dsm","evidence","false","hysteria","hysterican-neurosis","mental-disorder","mental-illness","misinformation","misleading","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","psychiatric-bible","psychiatry","rumor"],"id":181347,"author_id":"Richard+P.+Kluft"},{"text":"All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["emotional-health","health","hysteria","inspirational","life-lessons","life-lessons","medicine","medicine-for-the-soul","neuropsychology","neuroscience","physiology","psychiatry","psychology","psychology","repressed-emotions","repressed-feelings","repression","therapy"],"id":207986,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”).","author":"Thomas Ligotti","tags":["hysteria","insanity","melancholy","mysticism","sanity","sardonic","transcendence"],"id":232348,"author_id":"Thomas+Ligotti"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}