“Male hysteria is not at all rare, and, just among us, gentlemen, if I can judge from what I see each day, these cases are often unrecognized even by very distinguished doctors. One will concede that a young and effeminate man might develop hysterical findings after experiencing significant stress, sorrow, or deep emotions. But that a vigorous and strong worker whose nerves have not been whittled down by culture, for instance a railway engineer, fully integrated into the society and never prone to emotional instability before, should become hysteric-just as a woman might-this seems to be beyond the imagination. And yet, it is a fact-one which we must get used to.”
Jean-Martin Charcot
