Helping Quote by Cybill Shepherd

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his…

— Tennessee Williams

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

— Siri Hustvedt

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

— Tim Sandlin

We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion…

— Sigmund Freud

“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions…

— Beatrix Campbell

Hysteria takes too much energy to be maintained forever.

— Mira Grant

I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It pissed me…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Hysteria is impossible without an audience.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It was Freud's ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he gained the…

— Judith Lewis Herman

Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean…

— D. M. Thomas

“…madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…”

— Anne Sexton