The analysis of hysteria : understanding conversion and dissociation

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The analysis of hysteria : understanding conversion and dissociation

Harold Merskey

Gaskell , Distributed in North America by American Psychiatric Press, c1995

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-468) and index

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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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