Robert Eggers’s 2024 film, "Nosferatu," reimagines a woman’s struggle with desire, hysteria, and autonomy in a haunting tale of sexuality and empowerment.

Women in African and Asian "possession cults" have been said to use mass hysteria as a collective bargaining tool. It sounds sexist, and it’s sure to raise the ire of some feminists, but the ...

Asti Hustvedt, an editor and translator in New York City, was first drawn to the subject of hysteria while working on her doctorate in French at New York University. She ...