Hysteria has been described from biblical times. It changed its name many times over the years. Possession states and pseudoseizures are subtypes of hysteria. With two major diagnostic classifications, DSM 5 ICD 10 separating hysteria into different subcategories with dissimilar names, confusion for clinicians compounded. Fortunately, upcoming 11 taken a sensible approach describing all types u...

hysteria is one of the conversion disorders that can be presented similar to neurological and organic disorders. conversion symptoms are usually associated with emotional conflicts of the patient. belching is often reported in patients with gastroesophageal reflux and is a rare manifestation of hysteria. the authors would describe a young female patient with serial belching that, after several ...

Hysteria conceptions, from ancient Egypt until the 19th century Parisian hospital based studies, are presented from gynaecological and demonological theories to neurological ones. The hysteria protean behavioral disorders based on nervous origin was proposed at the beginning, mainly in Great Britain, by the "enlightenment nerve doctors". The following personages are highlighted: Galen, William,...

BECAUSE one focus of Freud's work was his theory of infantile sexuality, there has been some interest in identifying other nineteenth-century writers who discussed this phenomenon.' Also, because of Freud's early papers on male hysteria, there has been interest in nineteenth-century beliefs about the occurrence of hysteria in males.2 Curiously enough, however, almost no one seems to have paid m...

In the 20th century the term hysteria declined and the interest in the hysteria-related diseases decreased in comparison to the florid period of studies that was inspired by Charcot’s legacy in the second half of the 19th century. Scientific interest has once again increased in the 21st century, and dissociative and somatoform disorders (previously indicated as hysteria or hysterical neurosis) ...

Hysteria which occurs among school adolescents in Malaysia causes adverse effects on social and psychological development of adolescents. This scenario is worrying because such occurrences also interfere with the teaching and learning process. Islamic psychotherapy has its own methods in dealing with hysteria to overcome adolescent psychological and spiritual problems. Hence, the purpose of thi...

of the modern views on those functional nervous disorders called psycho-neuroses which the recent war has brought into such prominence. This need he believes the authors have been signally successful in supplying. Of the three common psycho-neuroses, vis., anxiety hysteria, neurasthenia, and psychasthenia, the first-named is alone dealt with in detail. Conversion hysteria is looked on as an off...

The 1965 book Hysteria: History of a Disease, by the German American historian Ilza Veith, certainly represented milestone in historiography hysteria. Praised at first as an innovative work, unprecedented its comprehensiveness and scholarship, it became, over time, object multiple criticisms regarding omissions, psychoanalytic bias, teleological character approach. This article aims pondering t...

Hysteria in Freud and Flaubert. This article reviews Freud’s course in his texts about hysteria and others related to it, and, following the suggestion of the inventor of psychoanalysis, intends to consider the character of a literary classic, Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”, aiming to point out the structural aspects of hysteria from the course of both, the character already mentioned, and the cons...