sodium-ethylxanthate and Hysteria

A brief historical introduction traces the evolution of the concept of hypochondriasis. It is suggested that the term should now be used only as a descriptive adjective when there is a morbid preoccupation with health or body. Social and cultural factors are outlined, as well as problems of measurement. The psychopathology, as formulated by Freud and others, is also described. Clinical aspects are discussed under the headings of general symptoms, pain, smell, bodily appearance, sexual, gastro-intestinal, cardio-respiratory, eyes, and ears, nose and throat. Psychiatric syndromes mentioned are: hypochondria as a possible primary state, personality disorders, phobic-anxiety state, neurashthenia, obsessional neurosis, hysteria, depression, paranoid psychosis and organic. In general, hypochondriacal symptoms seem to make the prognosis rather worse. Treatment is to be aimed at the primary condition, which is most commonly depression, anxiety state or conversion reaction.

Topics: Anxiety; Body Image; Delusions; Depression; Fatigue; Humans; Hypochondriasis; Hysteria; MMPI; Neurasthenia; Neurocognitive Disorders; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Pain; Paranoid Disorders; Personality Disorders; Phobic Disorders; Prognosis; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Schizophrenia; Sex

Topics: Germany; History, 20th Century; Humans; Hypnosis; Hysteria; Neurology; Sex; Warfare

In the works of Freud, the concept of childhood psychic trauma evolves in the direction of increasing complexity. The authors maintain that this expansion corresponds to a new conception of retroactive temporality (Nachträglich), which is precisely the one we use in the analytic process of reconstruction and historicization from the present toward the past. We are thus led to differentiate the extreme form of the unassimilable 'pure' Trauma, nearly pure death drive, from the retroactively historicized forms which are reintegrated into the continuity of a vital flow of time that we 'invent' in analytic work.

Topics: Anxiety; Death; Fantasy; Freudian Theory; Humans; Hysteria; Instinct; Memory; Neurotic Disorders; Psychoanalytic Theory; Repression, Psychology; Sex

Topics: Ego; Female; Humans; Hysteria; Intelligence; Mythology; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Regression, Psychology; Repression, Psychology; Sex

Topics: Adult; Child; Countertransference; Ego; Fantasy; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Hysteria; Male; Masochism; Narcissism; Professional-Patient Relations; Projection; Sex; Sexual Behavior; Transference, Psychology

Forty-four randomly selected women who received noncancer hysterectomy were evaluated preoperatively and at one-year follow-up. The findings did not support the hypothesis that the hysterectomy procedure is followed by an excess of psychiatric symptoms. The group, in fact, was less symptomatic at follow-up than presurgically. On the whole, women manifesting psychiatric symptoms during the follow-up had had similar problems before surgery. Many of the symptoms were associated with a presurgical diagnosis of hysteria (Briquet's somatization syndrome), found at a striking excess in the sample (27% vs the 1% or 2% expected). The authors suggest that when hysteria is diagnosed, therapeutic decisions regarding hysterectomy should be based on objective findings rather than on complaints, in that women with hysteria may be placed at risk of hysterectomy on the basis of psychiatric rather than gynecologic illness.

Topics: Adult; Attitude to Health; Depression; Family Characteristics; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Hysterectomy; Hysteria; Interview, Psychological; Postoperative Care; Preoperative Care; Sex; Syndrome

Topics: Aggression; Anxiety Disorders; Diagnosis, Differential; Drive; Female; Humans; Hysteria; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Marriage; Mother-Child Relations; Personality; Sex

Topics: Countertransference; Defense Mechanisms; Female; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Humans; Hypnosis; Hysteria; Love; Male; Motivation; Physician-Patient Relations; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Theory; Sex; Transference, Psychology

Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Emotions; Humans; Hysteria; Iatrogenic Disease; Interpersonal Relations; Maternal Deprivation; Personality; Physician-Patient Relations; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychotherapy; Sex; Stress, Physiological

Topics: Adolescent; Anxiety; Child; Child Behavior Disorders; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Hysteria; Male; Neurotic Disorders; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Phobic Disorders; Prognosis; Schizophrenia; Sex

Topics: Electrophysiology; Female; Galvanic Skin Response; Humans; Hysteria; MMPI; Sex

Topics: Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Chronic Pain; Conversion Disorder; Depression; Electroshock; Headache; Humans; Hypochondriasis; Hysteria; Neurotic Disorders; Pain; Psychological Tests; Psychophysiology; Sex

Topics: Aggression; Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Black People; Child; Culture; Depression; Depressive Disorder; Ethnology; Humans; Hysteria; Mental Disorders; Parent-Child Relations; Psychosomatic Medicine; Rorschach Test; Sex; Thematic Apperception Test; United States

Topics: Aging; Deglutition Disorders; Diagnosis, Differential; Diagnostic Errors; Diverticulosis, Colonic; Diverticulum; Duodenal Ulcer; Esophagitis; Gallbladder Diseases; Gastroesophageal Reflux; Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage; Heart Diseases; Hernia, Diaphragmatic; Hernia, Hiatal; Humans; Hysteria; Lung Diseases; Peptic Ulcer; Sex

Topics: Aggression; Anthropology; Anxiety; Courtship; Culture; Family; Guilt; Hallucinations; History; Humans; Hysteria; Interpersonal Relations; Marriage; New Guinea; Personality; Psychology, Social; Psychotic Disorders; Sex; Sexual Behavior; Superstitions

Topics: Anxiety; Autonomic Nervous System Diseases; Child; Conversion Disorder; Culture; Defense Mechanisms; Diagnosis, Differential; Humans; Hysteria; Paraphilic Disorders; Personality; Personality Disorders; Psychopathology; Sex; Sexual Behavior; Statistics as Topic; Symbolism

Topics: Histrionic Personality Disorder; Humans; Hysteria; Psychoanalytic Interpretation; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Sex

Topics: Classification; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Humans; Hysteria; Male; Neurotic Disorders; Personality; Sex

Topics: Adolescent; Amblyopia; Child; Child Psychiatry; Conversion Disorder; Diagnosis, Differential; Humans; Hysteria; Malingering; Psychology, Adolescent; Sex; Vision Tests; Visual Fields

Topics: Anxiety; Anxiety Disorders; Attitude; Conversion Disorder; Humans; Hysteria; Neurotic Disorders; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Personality; Personality Disorders; Sex; Sociology

Topics: Alcoholics; Alcoholism; Conversion Disorder; Homosexuality; Humans; Hysteria; Male; Sex

Topics: Blindness; Color Vision Defects; Conversion Disorder; Guilt; Humans; Hysteria; Sex; Sexual Behavior