Freud learned about hysteria from Charcot, the French neurologist after whom Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is named. Charcot's case studies of hysteria included many men, and he argued strongly that it was a disease that affected both men and women. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1036207/pdf/medhist00053-0005.pdf …
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Freud & Breuer lied in their "Studies on Hysteria", falsely claiming that "Anna O" had been cured of her symptoms by psychoanalysis when she had not, and falsely denying that they had prescribed her morphine to treat her pain. In fact, she was addicted.
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There's still debate about what Pappenheim's "real" diagnosis was, but she was clearly physically ill, and Freud and Breuer were clearly lying. Also, if you read the study, Freud is notably cruel and berates her for her symptoms as though she were malingering.
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I am inclined to suspect a neurological origin for at least some "hysteria". Post-traumatic movement disorders are a thing, including dystonias, dyskinesias, choreas, tics, seizures: http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63521-1.00030-3 …
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