full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Mark S. Micale: What is hysteria, and why were so many women diagnosed with it?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Around this same time, Sigmund Freud was rising to fame. He believed hysteria, like other neurvos conditions, was caused by repressed emotional trumaa. His treatment required dawnirg these mieeorms out of the ucicoosnnus so they could be acknowledged and addressed. Freud also dismissed the idea that hysteria was unique to women. Belief in “male hysteria” became prominent during and after the First World War, but was framed as the more masculine-sounding “shell shock.”

Over the 20th century, the term hysteria was slowly replaced by specific, less grneeedd diagnoses, including aenxity, disrespoen, PTSD, and epilepsy. And hysteria was officially rveemod from the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” in 1980. Today, most scholars argue that the blanket disease hysteria was always a figment of doctors’ imaginations. As outright macdiel sexism declined, so did its diagnosis. Nevertheless, its legacy reflects Western medicine’s long, storied, and ongoing hsiorty of misattributing and trivializing women’s pain.

Open Cloze


Around this same time, Sigmund Freud was rising to fame. He believed hysteria, like other _______ conditions, was caused by repressed emotional ______. His treatment required _______ these ________ out of the ___________ so they could be acknowledged and addressed. Freud also dismissed the idea that hysteria was unique to women. Belief in “male hysteria” became prominent during and after the First World War, but was framed as the more masculine-sounding “shell shock.”

Over the 20th century, the term hysteria was slowly replaced by specific, less ________ diagnoses, including _______, __________, PTSD, and epilepsy. And hysteria was officially _______ from the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” in 1980. Today, most scholars argue that the blanket disease hysteria was always a figment of doctors’ imaginations. As outright _______ sexism declined, so did its diagnosis. Nevertheless, its legacy reflects Western medicine’s long, storied, and ongoing _______ of misattributing and trivializing women’s pain.

Solution


  1. memories
  2. unconscious
  3. depression
  4. medical
  5. nervous
  6. trauma
  7. drawing
  8. gendered
  9. anxiety
  10. history
  11. removed

Original Text


Around this same time, Sigmund Freud was rising to fame. He believed hysteria, like other nervous conditions, was caused by repressed emotional trauma. His treatment required drawing these memories out of the unconscious so they could be acknowledged and addressed. Freud also dismissed the idea that hysteria was unique to women. Belief in “male hysteria” became prominent during and after the First World War, but was framed as the more masculine-sounding “shell shock.”

Over the 20th century, the term hysteria was slowly replaced by specific, less gendered diagnoses, including anxiety, depression, PTSD, and epilepsy. And hysteria was officially removed from the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” in 1980. Today, most scholars argue that the blanket disease hysteria was always a figment of doctors’ imaginations. As outright medical sexism declined, so did its diagnosis. Nevertheless, its legacy reflects Western medicine’s long, storied, and ongoing history of misattributing and trivializing women’s pain.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
female patients 2
term hysteria 2


Important Words


  1. acknowledged
  2. addressed
  3. anxiety
  4. argue
  5. belief
  6. believed
  7. blanket
  8. caused
  9. century
  10. conditions
  11. declined
  12. depression
  13. diagnoses
  14. diagnosis
  15. disease
  16. dismissed
  17. drawing
  18. emotional
  19. epilepsy
  20. fame
  21. figment
  22. framed
  23. freud
  24. gendered
  25. history
  26. hysteria
  27. idea
  28. imaginations
  29. including
  30. legacy
  31. long
  32. manual
  33. medical
  34. memories
  35. mental
  36. misattributing
  37. nervous
  38. officially
  39. ongoing
  40. outright
  41. pain
  42. prominent
  43. ptsd
  44. reflects
  45. removed
  46. replaced
  47. repressed
  48. required
  49. rising
  50. scholars
  51. sexism
  52. shock
  53. sigmund
  54. slowly
  55. specific
  56. statistical
  57. storied
  58. term
  59. time
  60. today
  61. trauma
  62. treatment
  63. trivializing
  64. unconscious
  65. unique
  66. war
  67. western
  68. women
  69. world