“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.” SexismSexual AbuseHysteriaBiasedHystericalDiscreditMental Health StigmaDevalueMental Illness StigmaMental Health BiasMelodramaticStigmatizedDehumanizeColonizedDevaluedPerjorative Book:Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate Source: Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate
“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either as culpable seducers who were not really damaged by the sex abuse or as dramatic fantasizers projecting their own incestuous wishes onto the father. I will argue that this view pervades the false-memory movement and can be found, for example, in Gardner's work (1992).” FantasySexismSexual AbuseChild Sexual AbuseHysteriaBiasedHystericalIncestDiscreditMental Health StigmaFalse MemoriesChildhood Sexual AbuseMental Illness StigmaFalse Memory SyndromeMental Health BiasMelodramaticStigmatizedFantasizingFalse Memory Syndrome MythPerjorative Book:Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate Source: Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate