Spread from ‘Hysteria’ (2015), text by Richard Appignanesi, drawings by Oscar Zarate (all images courtesy Self Made Hero) Psychotherapy as we know it today wouldn’t exist without the so-called female ...

We’ve probably all heard it before: A woman expresses rage or grief and gets called hysterical. Another discloses sexual harassment or assault, and she also gets labeled hysterical. The tendency to ...

Before "that time of the month" became a catch-all excuse for a woman's mood swings, there was another, stranger uterus-adjacent reason for female distress: hysteria. This wasn't just a misogynistic ...