Dissociative disorders and some of the somatic symptom disorders were once viewed as expressions of ___ , which denoted a symptom pattern of emotional excitability and physical symptoms without medical cause, and which was felt to be caused by a ____.
A) neurosis; suppression of psychic stress
B) neurosis; repression of traumatic memories
C) brain degeneration; an over-excitable brain and nervous system
D) hysteria; repression of traumatic memories
E) hysteria; wandering uterus

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Historically, hysteria was believed to be caused by a "wandering uterus," a concept that has since been discredited.

Dissociative Disorders and Some of the Somatic Symptom Disorders Were