hysterical neurosis

Hysteria, or “hysterical neurosis,” was finally deleted from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980.

I should like you to bear continually in mind that everything I have said here, and all that will follow, pertains only to the symptom development of hysterical neurosis.

A woman's emotional capacity in singing or acting may be remotely associated with hysterical neuroses, but is better evinced for art purposes in the absence of disturbing sexual influences.