Click Here to Read: The Problem With Psychiatry, the ‘DSM,’ and the Way We Study Mental Illness By Ethan Watters on the Pacific Standard website on June 3, 2013 .
In the 1880s, women by the tens of thousands displayed the distinctive signs of hysteria: convulsive fits, facial tics, spinal irritation, sensitivity to touch, leg paralysis. (ILLUSTRATION: MICHELLE THOMPSON)