Hysteria (disambiguation)

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Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses.

Hysteria may also refer to:

Psychology

• Conversion disorder, a replacement for the term hysteria in formal diagnostic manuals
• Histrionic personality disorder, a replacement for the term hysteria in formal diagnostic manuals
• Female hysteria, a formerly common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is no longer recognized by modern medical authorities
• Discourse of the hysteric, one of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's Four discourses

Music

• Hysteria (Def Leppard album), a 1987 album by Def Leppard
  • "Hysteria" (Def Leppard song), the title track on the Def Leppard album
• Hysteria (The Human League album), a 1984 album
• "Hysteria" (Muse song), a song by the British band Muse

Television, film and theatre

• Hysteria (play), play by Terry Johnson
• Hysteria (1965 film), a British film directed by Freddie Francis
• Hysteria (2011 film), a British film directed by Tanya Wexler
• Histeria!, an animated series produced by Steven Spielberg for Warner Bros. Animation
• Hysteria, a fictional organism on the program Extraterrestrial
• Hysteria, a benefit comedy show for the Terrence Higgins Trust

Botany

• Hysteria Reinw. is a synonym of Corymborkis, an orchid genus

See also

• Hysteresis, engineering term
• Hysteron proteron, figure of speech
• Studies on Hysteria, 1895 book

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