The uterus is a restless animal, which if not fertilized in time it moves through the woman body causing havoc wherever it goes: palpitations, seizures… It was that simple the diagnosis that doctors and philosophers such as Hippocrates and Plato attributed to what they called «hysteria», a Greek term referring to the womb. And centuries go by… and psychoanalysis continued to relate unsatisfied female sexuality with «hysterical» disorders. Actually, the bizarre history of the uterus […]
