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“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.”

Sexism Sexual Abuse Hysteria Biased Hysterical Discredit Mental Health Stigma Devalue Mental Illness Stigma Mental Health Bias Melodramatic Stigmatized Dehumanize Colonized Devalued Perjorative

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).”

Source: Sexual Abuse Recalled: Treating Trauma in the Era of the Recovered Memory Debate