055 A history of emotion
The British Museum Membercast
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The Differences Between Men and Women
In the first world war lots of men kept running away from the trenches with what looked like this female thing called hysteria. The idea is that women's womb would wander about making them a bit strange then they believe women had this kind of this mental health disorder as we now call it hysteria but men's been doing something very similar. It was a very confusing moment very important moment from the history of psychology because they realize actually they're not so different after all even though they are.
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