What is the definition of the word hysterical
Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes unmanageable emotional excesses. Generally, modern medical professionals have given up the use of hysteria as a diagnostic category, replacing it with more precisely defined categories such as somatization disorder.n the early 1890s Freud published a series of articles on hysteria which popularized Charcot's earlier work and began the development of his own views of hysteria. By the 1920s Freud's theory was influential in the UK and the US.