written by Dr. Marc S. Micale and brilliantly directed by Laura Jayne Hodkin, narrator Bethany Cutmore-Scott explains the ...

gets a job with Dr Dalrymple, who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages which allow orgasm. The handsome young doctor attracts a large female clientele and ...

Charcot took an interest in the malady then called hysteria. It seemed to be a mental disorder with physical manifestations, of immediate interest to a neurologist. He believed that hysteria was ...

Freud never met her, but Breuer's account of her treatment helped convince him that hysteria was connected to the slumbering imagination. Bertha would be the first person to experience what she ...