Journal article
Hysterical Personality
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.239(16), pp.1665-1666
04/21/1978
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1978.03280430081027
Abstract
If not the oldest diagnostic category in the history of psychiatry, hysteria is certainly one of the oldest. The first chapter in this book, written by historian Ilza Veith, chronicles the changing concepts of hysteria and points to some crucial unanswered questions: Is hysteria a disorder limited to women, or does it occur in men? How do manifestations in men differ, or do they? How prevalent is it? Is it familial? If familial, is it learned through modeling, is it genetically transmitted, or is it multifactorial? What is the typical course? What are the typical complications? Why have the florid symptoms observed by Charcot or Freud become increasingly uncommon? What treatment approaches are most effective? Why?This book does not provide answers for most of these questions. In part, they are unanswerable, because definitive research on hysteria has not as yet been completed. Apart from that unavoidable weakness, however, this
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Hysterical Personality
- Creators
- Nancy C Andreasen
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.239(16), pp.1665-1666
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1978.03280430081027
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/21/1978
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984068332902771
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