Top 10 Controversial Psychiatric Disorders
Hysteria
In the Victorian era, hysteria was a catch-all diagnosis for women in distress. The symptoms were vague (discontentment, weakness, outbursts of emotion, nerves) and the history sexist (Plato blamed the wanderings of an "unfruitful" uterus).
The treatment for hysteria? "Hysterical paroxysm," also known as orgasm. Physicians would massage their patients’ genitals either manually or with a [...]