Acute Anxiety and Hysteria

The Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria

Routledge & Kegan Paul. 32s. This is the latest in the series of Professor Eysenck's works written in his now familiar style. Readers of his other publications will know of his fruitful original and consistent approach to the study of personality using laboratory tests and sophisticated mathematical techniques. His previous books were largely concerned with the extraction of possible personalit...

Anxiety Hysteria. Modern Views on Some Neuroses

of the modern views on those functional nervous disorders called psycho-neuroses which the recent war has brought into such prominence. This need he believes the authors have been signally successful in supplying. Of the three common psycho-neuroses, vis., anxiety hysteria, neurasthenia, and psychasthenia, the first-named is alone dealt with in detail. Conversion hysteria is looked on as an off...

Hysteria, belief, and magic.

(a) A courageous OP refers a boy aged eight who has †̃¿ gone off his legs' that morning. The OP says he knows it is hysterical but that he cannot stop it. The boy is brought by car. A kind psychiatrist negotiates through the window the need for the boy to mount the steps to come and talk. The boy comes. He talks about how his estranged father had promised first a trip to the cup final and then...

Suggestibility and Hysteria.

Crime , Hysteria and Belle

Hysteria and hypnotism became a favorite topic of studies in the fin de siècle neurology that emerged from the school organized at La Salpêtrière by Jean-Martin Charcot, where he had arrived in 1861. Georges Gilles de la Tourette started working with Charcot in 1884 and probably remained his most faithful student, even after his mentor’s death in 1893. This collaboration was particularly intens...