Neurologists experienced in the interpretation of disease in terms of disordered action of the nervous system should be well suited to extend their field of interest to the more complex disorders of human behavior, including hysteria, delirium, ill-defined pain syndromes, unexplained fatigue, disorders of thought, atypical depression, and delusions. To illustrate the potential of neurology in a...

Where's hysteria now that we need it? With DSM-IV, psychiatrists have developed a common language and a common approach to diagnosis. But in the process of operationalizing diagnoses, we may have lost some concepts about patient behavior. The term "hysteria" disappeared when DSM-III was published; without it, psychiatrists have been deprived of a scientific concept essential to the development ...

The literature on hysteria in childhood is sparse in comparison with that on adults. Opinions differ regarding the definition and prevalence (Rae 1977, Goodyer 1981). Most studies report that hysteria is equally found in boys and girls and it occurs usually after five years of age (Robins and O'Neal 1953, Caplan 1970, Rock 1971). A review of literature by Goodyer (1981) suggests the importance ...

Since historical times, hysteria has colored the literature from novels to movies. The nomenclature changed from hysteria to dissociation over time. With More reliable diagnostic tools being available it became easier to objectively identify this phenomenon. However clinical examination still appears to be the sole diagnostic approach due to ambiguity in results of widely used investigations li...

Jean-Martin Charcot proposed the radical hypothesis that similar brain processes were responsible for the unexplained neurological symptoms of 'hysteria', now typically diagnosed as 'conversion disorder' or 'dissociative (conversion) disorder', and the temporary effects of hypnosis. While this idea has been largely ignored, recent cognitive neuroscience studies indicate that (i) hypnotisability...

Dora, an 18-years young girl, goes with her father to Freud's clinic, on account of several close to disabling signs and symptoms: “tussi nervosa”, aphonia, appendicitis attacks, etc. that Freud diagnoses as hysteria. During the treatment, he discovers that Dora has full knowledge of human sexuality, even of so-called perversions. She is in love with Mr. K, with Mrs. K, probably with her own fa...

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...