Pathology of Hysteria

Hysteria revisited.

Despite the attrition of psychoanalytic explanations for clinical conditions and the disappearance of “hysteria” from diagnostic lexicons, the phenomena first addressed in an orderly manner by Charcot and Freud continue to reassert themselves, as is apparent in the article by Vorhees in this issue of the JABFP. An elderly woman began to have spells of falling, paralysis, paresthesia, and uncont...

Overselling hysteria

O n February 4, 2014, The New York Times published an editorial “Overselling testosterone, dangerously”, in which it alleged that the rise in testosterone prescriptions was medically unwarranted, and that scientific studies suggesting an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) provided “the most compelling evidence yet that many American men have embarked on a perilous course of overtrea...

the pathology of historical texts translation: a study of persian translations of 7th volume of cambridge history of iran

ترجمه با گسترش زبان آغاز شده و اهمیت آن روز به روز افزایش می یابد، و برای اولین بار به عنوان شاخه ای از دانش و روشی برای انتقال علوم، فرهنگ و تجربه در در دوره قاجار در ایران آغاز شد. در حقیقت متون تاریخی از اولین متونی هستند که در ایران ترجمه شدند چرا که به سیاستمداران آن دوره کمک می کردند تا به علل موفقیت جهان غرب و پیشرفت هایشان در طول تاریخ پی ببرند، بنابراین به تدریج ترجمه این گونه متون رون...

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.