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hysteria

According to the work of Sigmund Freud, the conversion of a psychological conflict or anxiety feeling into a physical symptom, such as paralysis, blindness, recurrent cough, vomiting, and general malaise. The term is little used today in diagnosis, psychosomatic illness being the modern term.
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In "What We Believe" (page 58), Peter Bagge casts a gimlet eye on how Americans' susceptibility to hysterias dovetails neatly with a loss of faith in the Bill of Rights.
Getting beyond politics as usual by Gillespie, Nick / Reason
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