REST TREATMENT FOR HYSTERICAL DISEASE.

Diagnosis and treatment of hysterical conversion reactions.

Twenty children with hysterical conversion reactions were reviewed. The ways in which they became ill, the attitudes of their families to their illnesses and their underlying personal problems were noted. Treatment comprised avoiding unnecessary investigations and removing symptoms by using graded exercises given by physiotherapists. Exploration of the underlying psychological problems took pla...

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

Simulated Disease Occurring in Persons of Hysterical or Neurotic Temperament.

It will naturally be asked, How do the electrical currents act physiologically so as to cause the improvement as seen in this class of case? Psychical effects may be produced at times. by these methods, as may happen in -every other form of treatment. But improvement and -care must in a series of cases be due, as in other methods, to powerful therapeutical effects. In cases in which the blood p...

Hysterical Psychosis

Clinical features of 88 patients diagnosed as having hysterical psychosis are analysed and compared with those of an equal number of catatoaic schizophrenics and conversion reaction. Hysterical psychosis is characterised by acute onset. often following the occurence of an emotionally disturbing event, absence of any characteristic thought disturbance, and emotio.ial volatility. Prognosis is goo...