Hysteria is still too little understood, and too much the subject ?f loose thinking, even by psychiatrists. Any attempt to clarify our knowledge is therefore welcome : and the more so, when it is backed by an experience and an erudition such as Dr. Kretschmer's. And indeed we can cordially recommend his book to all doctors, who will find his concepts very helpful for themselves, and (in some ca...

Personality studies have consistently indicated a high prevalence of both psychopathy and depression among chronic alcoholics. This study examined the relationship of subclinical depression, psychopathy and hysteria (MMPI) to reported alcohol consumption and abuse (MAST scores) in a normal population of 18--21 year-olds. Both depression and psychopathy were positively related to frequency of co...

This study focuses on the psychological symptoms experienced by Mother in Pemintal Kegelapan (The Dark Spinner) Intan Paramadhita. Hysteria is understood as a neurosis form based an element of anxiety character’s past life. Psychological disorders short story can be seen from dual personality to avoid or cure she suffers. As disorder, hysteria certainly has therapy known catharsis. That method ...

The authors summarise the concepts of hysteria, emphasizing the seminal contribution of Charcot to its study.

Epidemic hysteria, known by multiple synonymous terms, including mass hysteria, mass psychogenic illness, and mass sociogenic illness, has been defined as a constellation of symptoms suggestive of organic illness, but without an identifiable cause, that occurs between two or more people who share beliefs related to those symptoms (1). Rather than being viewed as a collection of people suffering...

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles were analysed in 55 patients with pseudoseizures (40 patients with pseudoseizures only-pure group, and 15 patients with both pseudoseizures and epilepsy-mixed group). For each of the 10 clinical scales, there were no significant differences between the groups in mean T-score values or the incidence of pathological scores (T-score of 70 or abo...

This article explores Heidegger’s Er-eignis and Nietzsche’s messianism to carve out an understanding of transcendence that allows a connection with happiness in ontological sense. I will, however, need two more important ‘figures’ from work, namely ‘artist’ ‘woman’—the latter as understood by Derrida. Using ‘de-Freuding’ the term ‘hysteria’ into philosopheme, can finally connect end metaphysics...

This theoretical study aims at discussing hysteria nowadays and considers the cultural changes that might have occurred from the foundation of Psychoanalysis until today. The discussion is based on the thoughts of Charles Melman, a psychoanalyst who has studied the position of the subject in the conditions of the current Western culture. We highlighted aspects and consequently elaborated a refl...

The study refers to Sixty five cases, diagnosed as Hysteria in the course of one year in a general hospital clinic. High occurrence was seen in the age group of 16-20 years. Mean age was 19.1 years. Females formed the majority of the patients (63.1%). Occurrence was higher in unmarried males and females. Illness was more common in persons with lower education and socio-economic status. Nuclear ...