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Based on an actual case in Minneapolis, it was the story of a girl who went psychosomatically deaf in emotional flight from her role as the ears of a deaf father, mother and brother.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hansen notes that hysteria, as defined medically, can produce fits of supernormal violence, a vivid appearance that the sufferer is being choked, and psychosomatically induced "bite" and "pinch" marks on the skin.

From Time Magazine Archive