His hypochondriasis was real; he did not merely have hysterical symptoms - he had true diseases which usually turned the patient into a terminal case.

Freud believed that all hysterical symptoms ultimately have some organic components.

He found Hitler to be "a psychopath, with hysterical symptoms."

But this development only seems to increase Francis's twitchy desperation, and soon he has added hallucinations to his collection of hysterical symptoms.

Freudian psychoanalytic theory attributed hysterical symptoms to the unconscious mind's attempt to protect the patient from psychic stress.

In medicine the term is used to describe the spontaneous manifestation of the same or similar hysterical physical symptoms by more than one person.

Freud was a neurologist interested in finding an effective treatment for patients with neurotic or hysterical symptoms.

Her most manifest hysterical symptom was aphonia, or loss of voice.

It has to be said, however, that the Holy Spirit sometimes manifested himself in some rather hysterical symptoms.

Many soldiers paid the price in emotional breakdown, though the hysterical symptoms common among earlier veterans were rarely seen.