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Hysteria

Known as: SOMATIZATION DISORDER HYSTERIA, Hysteria [Disease/Finding], Hysteria, unspecified 
Historical term for a chronic, but fluctuating, disorder beginning in early life and characterized by recurrent and multiple somatic complaints not… 
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Adjustment reactionCatalepsyConversion disorderDissociative disorder

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Dissociative AmnesiaDissociative HysteriaGlobus HystericusHysterical Neuroses

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Mental disordersPersonality DisordersSomatoform Disorder

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Review
2004
Review
2004
Somatization, Hysteria, or Incompletely Explained Symptoms?
  • H. Merskey
  • Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne…
  • 2004
  • Corpus ID: 17744976
In this month's In Review section, all the contributors-Dr Francois Mai (1), Dr Laurence Kirmayer and colleagues (2), and I… 
1986
1986
Hysteria and Insanity in Women: A Nineteenth-Century Canadian Perspective
Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, the Canadian medical profession became concerned about the increasing problem of… 
1978
1978
Management of Briquet syndrome (hysteria).
The common psychiatric disorder Briquet syndrome (hysteria) has no specific treatment, but it can be managed effectively. Careful… 
1976
1976
An interpersonal approach to hysteria.
The author defines hysteria in terms of specific observable classes of interpersonal behaviors and examines the impact of these… 
1975
1975
Hysteria and parental psychiatric illness
Synopsis A two-generation study of 46 families of convicted women felons showed that the daughters of sociopathic fathers had a… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Sex, age, and the diagnosis of hysteria (Briquet's syndrome).
A study of hysteria (Briquet's syndrome) in 500 psychiatric clinic patients showed that men and women differ with regard to the… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Hysteria and antisocial behavior: further evidence of an association.
The authors report on a controlled comparison of women with hysteria and women with anxiety neurosis that confirms other work… 
1967
1967
Sexuality in females with "hysteria".
Much has been written on sexuality in female hysterics. No author seems to have established a direct relationship between… 
1963
1963
A dimension of personality organization. An experimental study of "ego-closeness--ego-distance".
The experiments reported in this paper originated with A. C. Voth's 22,23 discovery, confirmed by him over a period of years… 
Highly Cited
1955
Highly Cited
1955
The meaning and clinical validity of the Taylor anxiety scale and the hysteria-psychasthenia scales from the MMPI.