Hysterical Disorders of Vision

Hysterical Disorders of Warfare

This is a most interesting and remarkable book, both as regards the conception of hysteria and the methods of treatment employed with such success. We cannot help thinking that the personality of the author, his marvellous determination, tact, and good humour, as shown in these pages, is not the least striking of the series of human pictures here detailed. He had studied mental disease in asylu...

The hypnotic diagnostic interview for hysterical disorders, pediatric form.

This article reports on the use of hypnosis to facilitate the diagnostic process in two cases of pediatric hysterical reactions. The Hypnotic Diagnostic Interview for Hysterical Disorders (HDIHD), an interview tool, specifically designed for these cases, is reported. The first case was an adolescent male with motor Conversion Disorder manifested as paralysis of his lower limbs. The second was a...

Hysterical paraplegia.

Between 1944 and 1984 20 patients were admitted to a spinal injuries centre with a diagnosis of traumatic paraplegia. They subsequently walked out and the diagnosis was revised to hysterical paraplegia. A further 23 patients with incomplete traumatic injuries, who also walked from the centre, have been compared with them as controls. The features that enabled a diagnosis of hysterical paraplegi...

Hysterical Belch

Developmental disorders of vision.

This review of developmental disorders of vision focuses on only a few of the many disorders that disrupt visual development. Given the enormity of the human visual system in the primate brain and complexity of visual development, however, there are likely hundreds or thousands of types of disorders affecting high-level vision. The rapid progress seen in developmental dyslexia and WMS demonstra...