Hysteria in Men

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PRIOR to 1618, hysteria was said to occur only in women. The writings of Hippocrates,1 Galen,2 Aretaeus3 and Celsus4 make clear their belief that the condition never occurred in men. Caroli Pisonis (Charles Lepois),5 in 1618, was probably the first to suggest that hysteria could occur in men as well as in women. Since then, many authors6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 have reported what they term hysteria as occurring in men, although the frequency is low in men as compared with that in women.6 , 7 , 9 , 10 Briquet6 found that in 430 cases diagnosed hysteria only 1.6 per cent occurred in men; Savill,9 from a study of . . .