The analysis of hysteria : understanding conversion and dissociation
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The analysis of hysteria : understanding conversion and dissociation
Gaskell , Distributed in North America by American Psychiatric Press, c1995
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-468) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Conversion and dissociation cover numerous phenomena and a wide range of ideas. The topic is central to understanding the relationship between mind and body. This book provides a survey of the whole range of hysterical phenomena, from classical paralyses and blindness to questions about hysterical personality and epidemic hysteria.
Table of Contents
Contents Part I. History and concepts
Some traditional concepts
Early neurological analyses
The turn of the century
The contribution of Freud
Combat hysteria
Ernst Kretschmer
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Part II. Motives and extremes
Malingering, self-damage and anorexia nervosa
Amnesia, pseudodementia and the Ganser syndrome: denial of illness
Compensation issues
Part III. Varied causes and symptoms
Organic brain disease
Pain
Somatisation disorder and somatisation
Hypochondriasis
The diversity of hysterical complaints
Epidemic or communicable hysteria
Chronic fatigue syndromes
Children
Suggestion and hypnotic phenomena
'Multiple personality disorder'
Dissociation repression and false memories
Part IV. Individual dynamics and clinical subgroups
Personality traits
Psychoses
Psychoanalytic concepts
Part V. A perspective
The survival of hysteria
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