Word: hysterias
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This reduction in tension--and even hysteria--which once surrounded intellectual activity, appears to be representative of a general emotional downgrading in other areas, Worthy said. He felt that the general high emotional level, predominant three years ago, was now greatly reduced in most areas...
...comic and plot device to penetrate the realms of the unconscious." This was the period when Freud still hoped to put hypnosis to good medical use. Later plays, e.g., Intermezzo, Comedy of Seduction (1905, 1924), stress unconscious motivation of behavior not unlike Freud's Studies in Hysteria (1893). These, says Dr. Kupper, were followed by works involving concepts of resistance, transference and repression during the time when Freud was developing the same ideas and giving them wide currency...
...startling spectacle of the Indian fakir snuggled down on his bed of nails, or the martyr thrusting his hand into the flames, has often been explained by medical science on the basis of emotional disturbances (usually hysteria). In other cases, failure to react to pain may be due to severe mental retardation or physical damage to the nervous system. But there remains a baffling group of individuals to whom none of these explanations can be applied, and who show no reaction to pain of virtually any kind...
...view stands in gloomy contrast to the optimism that greeted the President in 1953. Then, his program had promise of settling the subversive issue fairly and efficiently. Because he was a military hero honored with deep national affection, it was hoped that he could not only overcome McCarthy-inspired hysteria with the force of his moral leadership, but also that he could lift government service from the level at which Truman's stubborn devotion to his political friends had left it. Public criticism and court decisions have since forced the Administration to soften some of its initial harsh policies...
...latest outbursts of racial violence in the South have filled me with shame and disgust. This mob violence and mass hysteria has no justification and to poison the minds of children with hatred and bigotry is nothing less than atrocious! Instead of hanging effigies, these mobs should hang their heads in shame...