Hysteria and Related Mental Disorders (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Hysteria and Related Mental Disorders: An Approach to Psychological Medicine 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 10
PREFACE 8
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY 14
1. Scope and Purpose of the Work 14
2. Historical Survey of Opinions held concerning the Nature of Hysteria 15
CHAPTER ll. AETIOLOGY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF HYSTERIA 21
1. Mental Conflict and Symptom Formation 21
2. The Importance of the Vita Sexualis 28
3. The Oedipus Complex and the Role of the Actual Conflict 32
4. The Disturbance of Repression 35
5. The Point of Fixation 39
6. The Castration Complex 41
7. The Significance of the Hysterical Convulsion 44
CHAPTER III. CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF HYSTERIA IN INDIAN AND IN BRITISH SOLDIERS 53
CHAPTER IV. DIAGNOSIS I: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF CONVERSION HYSTERIA FROM ORGANIC DISEASE 58
1. Approach to Diagnosis 58
2. Diagnostic Psychiatric Interview 61
3. Differentiation from Organic Disease 71
4. Iatrogenic Suggestion and the Stigmata 86
CHAPTER V. NEUROSIS AND PSYCHOSIS 96
CHAPTER VI. SCHIZOPHRENIA 102
Fundamental Symptoms: Thought Disorder, Affect Disorder and Ambivalence, and Autism 108
CHAPTER VII. DIAGNOSIS II : THE DIFFERENTIATION OF HYSTERIA FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA 114
CHAPTER VIII. HYSTERIA AND HYPNOID STATES 122
1. The Existence of Hypnoid States 122
2. Criteria for the Recognition of Hypnoid States 126
3. The Border-line Personality and the Hypnoid State 130
4. Some Preliminary Metapsychological Considerations 133
5. Further Metapsychological Considerations 135
CHAPTER IX. MULTIPLE PERSONALITY 141
DISCUSSION 145
CHAPTER X. THE ACCIDENT-PRONE INDIVIDUAL 148
CHAPTER XI. THE CONCEPT OF DISSOCIATION 156
1. Automatic Writing and Co-consciousness: Somnambulism and Sequential Alterations of Consciousness 156
2. Fugue and Enactment of Wish Phantasies Somnambulism and Compulsion to Repeat
3. The Evolution of Janet's Concept 160
4. Dissociation, Identification, and the Body Image 162
CHAPTER XII. DISSOCIATION AND COMMUNICATION 167
1. Molar and Molecular Dissociation 167
2. Glossolalia 172
3. Reversion to Body Language 176
4. Hysteria as a Communicative Disorder 177
CHAPTER XIII. THE SYNDROME OF GILLES DE LA TOURETTE 183
COMMUNICATIVE DISORDER 189
CHAPTER XIV. SYMBOLS, AFFECTS, AND LANGUAGE 192
1. Symbolization and Communication 192
2. Some Aspects of Language Development and the Conversion Process 197
3. Affect Symbolism 206
CHAPTER XV. DIAGNOSIS III: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF CONVERSION HYSTERIA FROM PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC AUTONOMIC DISORDER 227
1. Psychological Stress 227
2. Psychophysiologic Disorder 230
3. The Differentiating Features 237
4. Psychosomatic Disorder: Concluding Remarks 242
CHAPTER XVI. PSYCHOTHERAPY 244
1. Principal Types of Psychotherapy and Their Indications 244
2. Problems in Evaluation of Psychotherapy 251
3. The Psychotherapy of Hysteria 257
BIBLIOGRAPHY 270
SUBJECT INDEX 284
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 300