Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascist campaign for 1,000,000 more babies than could be expected from maintenance of the present birthrate is being carried on with the hysteria sometimes associated with religious revivals...
...mental processes and behaviour that depart from normal and average forms. It includes a study of such common phenomena as dreams, reveries, slips of the tongue, morbid fears and anxieties, feelings of guilt and inferiority, obsessional ideas and compulsive acts, as well as the less common manifestations of hysteria and the halucinations and delusions of the insane...
...find an answer to his questions. For abnormal psychology, since it deals with all extremes of human activity, the mind behaviour of the criminal as well as the rotarian and the genius, ramifies into all attitudes and objectifications of the human soul. It is preoccupied with hysteria and visions, hence religious conversions, hence ecstasy, hence creative fervor, hence the poetry of William Black. It delves into the obsessional neuroses, hence witchcraft, hence persecutions, hence the devil voices of Cotton Mather. There...
...that so much has been written concerning the overemphasis of intercollegiate football there are those who might regard this as a healthy sign and a disposition on the part of the Yale graduate to minimize the importance of the game Certainly there was no indication of hysteria on the part of the Yale undergraduate either before or during the late Yale-Harvard game...
Come to think of it that was all it was supposed to be in the first place. Those who have been insisting that the ballyhoo and the hysteria in connection with modern intercollegiate football have destroyed all sense of proportion should applaud the attitude of the Yale undergraduate but before and during this game. Certainly the telling was that it was just a football game merely that and nothing more...