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Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Hysteria

Contemporary Approaches to the Study of Hysteria

Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives

9780192632548
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Patients with striking physical symptoms suggestive of a neurological disease, but no evidence of nervous system damage are typically labelled as suffering from hysterical conversion. Despite claims that conversion disorders have disappeared from clinical practice, patients with conversion symptoms continue to present diagnostic conundrums to clinicians. The disorder accounts for 4% of all referrals to neurology services. This book covers aspects neglected by previous works on this controversial condition, moving away from traditional historico-sociological accounts towards neuroscientific theories about the causes and categorization of hysteria. Recent investigations using functional imaging and hypnosis are covered, as are the neuropsychological accounts inspired by them, alongside more traditional psychodynamic accounts. A section on medico-legal aspects is innovative and timely. The key causal role of lifeevents is also addressed, along with the influence of military conflict and culture in shaping and modifying clinical presentations, and changes in physical manifestations of hysteria through the centuries. With contributions from a distinguished international team, representative of all interested specialty groups, this books aims to demonstrate that hysterical conversion remains clinically important, with potential for empirical research in both social and medical sciences, as well as offering a fertile source for advancing neuroscience.
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OUP Oxford
84172
9780192632548
9780192632548

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Publication date
2001
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
368
Dimensions (mm)
173 x 247
Weight (g)
832
  • Part 1 - History; All in the mind? The history of hysterical conversion as a clinical concept; War based hysteria - the military perspective; Recovering hysteria from history: Herodotus and the first case of shell shock; Part 2 - Definition; The origins of DSM and ICD criteria for conversion and somatization disorders; Discrepancies between diagnostic criteria and clinical practice; Conversion, dissociation or doxomorphic disorder; Conversion hysteria: a legal diagnosis; Part 3 - Clinical Presentation; The anthropology of hysteria; The epidemiology of hysterical conversion; Non-epileptic seizures; Hysterical conversion - the view from clinical neurology; Factitious disorders and malingering; Part 4 - Possible Mechanisms; Life events: meanings and precursors; Psychodynamic theories in conversion hysteria; Disorders of willed action; Conversion hysteria: the relevance of attentional awareness; Hysteria and hypnosis: cognitive and social influences; Imaging hysterical paralysis; Part 5 - Prognosis and Management; The prognosis of hysteria/somatization disorder; Psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of conversion hysteria; Cognitive behavioural therapy as a treatment for conversion disorder; Hypnosis and suggestion in the treatment of hysteria; Rehabilitation for hysterical conversion states: a critical review and conceptual reconstruction;
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