In early 2011, while browsing the internet, I accidentally came across the online versionof aNewYorkTimesarticle titled “Is Hysteria Real? Brain Images Say Yes.”1At that point,I too held the view that continues to dominate the humanities literature. According tothis view,hysteria was“written out of current medicine”during the twentieth century.2Itthushadno“placeintheseriousreachesofco…