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Freud's term for phobias, reflecting his view that the same defense mechanisms, repression and displacement, and the same unconscious conflicts involving infantile sexuality are involved in both hysteria and phobias.Medical dictionary. 2011.
anxiety hysteria — noun a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis • Hypernyms: ↑hysteria, ↑hysterical neurosis * * * noun : a psychoneurotic disorder with features of both conversion reaction and anxiety neurosis * * *… … Useful english dictionary
hysteria — A somatoform (psychoneurotic or psychosomatic) disorder in which there is an alteration or loss of physical functioning that suggests a physical disorder such as paralysis of an arm or disturbance of vision, but that is instead apparently an… … Medical dictionary
hysteria — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abstraction, abulia, accident neurosis, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxiety state, apathy, association neurosis, battle fatigue, blast neurosis, catatonic… … Moby Thesaurus
Anxiety — Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities. In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Anxiety and Phobias — Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities. In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
hysteria — [hi ster′ē ə, histir′ē ə] n. [ModL < HYSTERIC + IA] 1. a psychiatric condition variously characterized by emotional excitability, excessive anxiety, sensory and motor disturbances, or the unconscious simulation of organic disorders, such as… … English World dictionary
Hysteria — In 1802, Paris psychiatrist Jean Baptiste Louyer Villermay (1775–1837), in an essay differentiating hypochondria from hysteria, described a young female patient, uncertain about romance, who, at the sight of her loved one fainted, uttering… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Hysteria-Psychosomatic-Somatization — In 1802, Paris psychiatrist Jean Baptiste Louyer Villermay (1775–1837), in an essay differentiating hypochondria from hysteria, described a young female patient, uncertain about romance, who, at the sight of her loved one fainted, uttering… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
Hysteria — This article is about the state of mind. For other uses, see Hysteria (disambiguation). Women under hysteria. Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable emotional excesses. People who are hysterical often lose self control due to an… … Wikipedia
hysteria — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ mass, public ▪ mild (esp. BrE), near ▪ media, tabloid (BrE) ▪ Unnecessary anxiety has been caused by media hysteria … Collocations dictionary
