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The word hysteria originates from the Greek word for uterus, hystera. The oldest record of hysteria dates back to 1900 BCE when Egyptians recorded behavioral abnormalities in adult women on the Kahun Papyrus. [7] The Egyptians attributed the behavioral disturbances to a wandering uterus – thus the condition later being dubbed hysteria.
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
Studies on Hysteria (German: Studien über Hysterie) is an 1895 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and the physician Josef Breuer.It consists of a joint introductory paper (reprinted from 1893); followed by five individual studies of hysterics – Breuer's famous case of Anna O. (real name: Bertha Pappenheim), seminal for the development of psychoanalysis, and four more by ...
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Hysterical or Hysterics may refer to: Hysteria, unmanageable emotional excesses; Hysterical, a film from Embassy Pictures; Hysterical, a documentary film; Music ...
It was a common diagnosis in Freud's time, with a long history. Freud considered the cause of hysteria to be a great mystery, comparing it to searching for the source of the Nile. [3] The 1895 book Studies on Hysteria, coauthored by Freud, introduced a technique of exploring memories that would form the basis of "Aetiology of Hysteria". [2]
All pages with titles containing Hysteria; Histeria (disambiguation) Hysteresis, the dependence of the state of a system on its history; Hysteron proteron, a rhetorical device; Four discourses, a concept by Jacques Lacan, including "Hysteric" Mass psychogenic illness, or mass hysteria; Studies on Hysteria, an 1895 book by Sigmund Freud
In this article some of the words (that were used in Urdu and were then added to Hindi) are of Persian origin not Urdu/Hindi. e.g. Pyjama: It's Persian word (پاجامہ). In Persian, Paa (پا) (changed to Py for making adjective) means: Foot or for Foot and Jama (جامہ) means Clothes. In urdu/hindi, Paa is derived from Persian, the root ...