Hysteria, in its colloquial use, describes a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses.
Hysteria may also refer to:
Psychology
- Conversion disorder, a replacement for the term hysteria in formal diagnostic manuals
- Histrionic personality disorder, a replacement for the term hysteria in formal diagnostic manuals
- Discourse of the hysteric, one of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's Four discourses
- Mass hysteria
- Female hysteria, a formerly common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is no longer recognized by modern medical authorities
Music
- Hysteria (Def Leppard album), 1987 album by Def Leppard
- "Hysteria" (Def Leppard song), title track on the Def Leppard album
- Hysteria (The Human League album), 1984 album
- Hysteria (Katharine McPhee album), 2015 album
- "Hysteria" (Muse song), song by British band Muse
- "Hysteria" (Anna Abreu song), 2011
- "Histeria" (song), song by Argentine singer Lali Espósito
Television, film and theatre
- Hysteria (play), a play by Terry Johnson
- Hysteria (1965 film), a British film directed by Freddie Francis
- Hysteria (2011 film), a British film directed by Tanya Wexler
- Histeria!, an animated series produced by Warner Bros. Animation
- Hysteria, a fictional organism on Extraterrestrial (TV program)
- Hysteria, a benefit comedy show for the Terrence Higgins Trust
- Hysteria, an original series pilot on Amazon Video, see list of original programs distributed by Amazon
Publication
- Hysteria (periodical), a British feminist publication
Botany
- Hysteria Reinw. is a synonym of Corymborkis, an orchid genus
See also
- Hysteresis, an engineering term
- Hysteron proteron, a figure of speech
- Studies on Hysteria, an 1895 book