TRAUMATIC NEURASTHENIA AND HYSTERIA

Hysteria and Neurasthenia

selection was amply justified is proved by the wholly admirable work which Dr. Michell Clarke has given us. The phenomena of hysteria have been known and separately recognised in a more or less perfect degree for long past, and good descriptions of the symptom-complex exist in our own and many other languages. The continued evolution of neurology, however, has made more extensive the area of wh...

A Manual of Neurasthenia

writing the book, and to enjoy the extraordinary, naivete in which it abounds. Although the author is not one of those who still recognises the existence of only twoneuroses, viz., hysteria and neurasthenia, it cannot be said that he presents a very clear picture of the latter. Neurasthenia is a term which has been applied recklessly to a perfectly distinguishable group of neuroses. The reason ...

Neurasthenia in Anglo-Indians

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.