"one is surprised at times to admire the craft, the sagacity, and the unyielding tenacity that especially the women, who are under the influence of this great neurosis, will put in play in order to deceive—particularly when the victim of the deception happens to be the physician … It is incontestable that, in a multitude of cases, they have taken pleasure in distorting, by exaggerations, the principal circumstances of their disorder, in order to make them appear extraordinary and wonderful"
Jean-Martin Charcot
“this great neurosis”
