Form Of Hysteria Research Articles

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Comments on Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s “The great transition: our battles over history”

ABSTRACT Rajadhyaksha’s essay is basically an ambitious and challenging attempt to place protest movements and their relation to changing structures of power in a larger comparative historical framework. What the suggested framework recognizes is that history today is experienced more and more as a form of hysteria that defies our efforts to understand it. In this situation, historiography needs all the help it can get, including turning to science fiction for insights. The “planetary shift” in this respect is not just a geo-physical phenomenon. It points to “the great transition” in the essay’s title, to the fact that the grids and paradigms which we have been using to understand the world, including globalization and protest movements, no longer work. Normalcies and anomalies can no longer be easily distinguished from each other. The exception does not prove the rule; instead, what the proliferation of anomalies proves is that the rules have already changed.

Transitional states in child neurology (neurocontinuum)

The article is devoted to the issue of transitional states in child psychoneurology, based on the general concept of a continuum of transitional states from normal variants to severe chronic diseases. The article discusses borderline psychoneurology disorders associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and various genetic defects. A significant passage is devoted to convulsive states and epilepsy. The autism spectrum analyzed both as a aggregate of nosologies and in combination with epilepsy. The author proposes the concept of quasicontinuum of cognitive development in the spectrum of child autism. There are presented the transitions of various forms of hysteria. Also the authors provide the data on the similar etiology of impaired coordination and cerebral palsy, which can be considered as a single continual process. As possible methods of dividing the continuum into separate forms there are works on the so-called signal features and a dynamics model for estimating time limits of transition states, also the operators to determine the value of factors characterizing transition states, are presented.

Occurrence and intervention of hysteria in left-behind children in Chongqing rural area

Objective To analyze the clinical characteristics and the interventional effects of hysteria in left-behind children in Chongqing rural area for early detection, early treatment and prevention of the disease. Methods One hundred and three left-behind children aged from 7 to 17 years were diagnosed as hysteria from Jun.2008 to Jun.2011.Their general information, clinical presentations were analyzed retrospectively.After comprehensive intervention, they were assessed the clinical efficacy in accordance with Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, and some of them were tested by Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ) and Symptom Checklist(SCL-90). Results There were many clinical forms of hysteria in 103 left-behind children.Physical dysfunction accounted for 72 cases(69.90%), whose symptoms were mainly paralysis and convulsive seizure, which was significantly higher than mental disorder(5 cases, 4.9%). The mixed episode of physical dysfunction and mental disorder accounted for 26 cases(25.40%). Seventy-eight cases(75.73%) were cured, 19 cases(18.45%) improved significantly, and 6 cases(5.83%) improved respectively after intervention of 3 to 12 days.Emotional instability accounted for 12 cases(63.16%) in personality factors with EPQ test in 19 cases.Their factors of somatization, interpersonal relationship, depression, anxiety, and hostility with SCL-90 significantly decreased(all P<0.05) after intervention of 7 to 12 days. Conclusions The main forms of hysteria in left-behind children in Chongqing rural area are physical dysfunction and mixed episode, which are paralysis and convulsive seizure.Emotional instability is common in personality factors for them.It can be achieved good results of hysteria in left-behind children to pay attention to the emotional exchange between the children and their parents, early detect, early treat and active prevent the disease. Key words: Hysteria; Clinical character; Intervention; Left-behind child

The Lady in the Carriage: Trauma, Embodiment, and the Drive for Resolution

The Lady in the Carriage: Trauma, Embodiment, and the Drive for Resolution

Dissociative Disorders

The dissociative disorders, including "psychogenic" or "functional" amnesia, fugue, dissociative identity disorder (DID, also known as multiple personality disorder), and depersonalization disorder, were once classified, along with conversion disorder, as forms of hysteria. The 1970s witnessed an "epidemic" of dissociative disorder, particularly DID, which may have reflected enthusiasm for the diagnosis more than its actual prevalence. Traditionally, the dissociative disorders have been attributed to trauma and other psychological stress, but the existing evidence favoring this hypothesis is plagued by poor methodology. Prospective studies of traumatized individuals reveal no convincing cases of amnesia not attributable to brain insult, injury, or disease. Treatment generally involves recovering and working through ostensibly repressed or dissociated memories of trauma; at present, there are few quantitative or controlled outcome studies. Experimental studies are few in number and have focused largely on state-dependent and implicit memory. Depersonalization disorder may be in line for the next "epidemic" of dissociation.

Mental disorders with voice disorders

The first mention of the relationship of voice disorders with the mental state of a person was made back in 1890 by F.E. Ingals, who viewed aphonia as a form of hysteria. R. Jane in 1920. in his work "The main symptoms of hysteria" he considered "sudden paralysis or loss of voice" as one of the "salutary ways out of the situation", when patients can show "a perverse attitude towards reality through the demonstration of their incapacity." D.K. Wilson (1990) notes the influence of a person's mental state on such parameters of a voice as loudness, pitch, pitch variation and voice quality. Curtis (1967) considered one of the causes of voice disorders in children to be poor adaptability to the environment and poor relationships between parents and children, lack of mutual understanding in interpersonal contacts. According to Andrews (1988), when testing patients with vocal disorders, a significant increase in the so-called cases of "conflict in expressing one's feelings through speech" was found.

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Briquet's concept of hysteria: an historical perspective.

Paul Briquet's Traité de l'Hystérie was published in 1859 and is a comprehensive clinical and epidemiological study of 430 patients with hysteria. It was widely known and quoted in its time, but was submerged by the rise of the psychoanalytic concept of hysteria at the end of the 19th century. Briquet's work was resurrected in 1971 with the recommendation that the term Briquet's Syndrome be used for certain forms of hysteria. This paper translates into English those sections of his monograph devoted to his concept of hysteria and discusses these in an historical framework. Briquet regarded hysteria as a "Neurosis of the Brain" in which a variety of unpleasant environmental events acted upon the "affective part of the brain" in a susceptible and predisposed individual. He considered the brain to be the "seat of hysteria" because it was the source of the multiple manifestations of the condition. Amongst its many other notable contributions, Briquet's study finally laid to rest hysteria's historic association with physical disease of the female genitalia.

Who needs to see the psychiatrist?

In the past 13 years I have had referred to me some 2600 new patients and have undertaken some 10 400 psychothera peutic sessions with these children, usually with both their parents, and not infrequently with the rest of the family as well. My analysis brought to light no euphoric children. Child and adolescent psychiatry is quite different from adult psychia try. Children do not suffer from schizophrenia, paraphrenia, paranoid psychoses, mania, sexual neuroses, arteriosclerotic dementia, or chronic alcoholism. They do, however, suffer from various emotional conflicts?from fears, phobias, forms of hysteria, boredom, frustration, suppression, shame, humiliation, feelings of rejection (often justified), temper tantrums, feelings of inadequacy and of vulnerability, self-consciousness, and varying degrees of unhappincss up to utter despair and a wish that they could die; just the same feelings as normal adults, in fact, although their vocabulary limits their ability to express themselves. Being a child is hard, much harder than being an adult. Children are utterly dependent on adults for their bare survival, let alone their civil liberties. The well-adjusted child must be

Manerik and Emiryachenie - forms of hysteria in the Kolyma region

Bibliography and reviews. S. I. Mitskevich. Manerik and emiryachenie are forms of hysteria in the Kolyma region. Published by the USSR Academy of Sciences. Leningrad .. 1929, Price 1 p. The fate of this good little book is truly interesting. Its author, SI Mitskevich, an old Bolshevik-revolutionary, widely known throughout the USSR as the director of the USSR Museum of Revolution, a psychiatrist by his specialty, wrote this book in draft way back in 1903 after returning from political exile.

TOXICITY IN HYSTERIA, EPILEPSY AND NEURASTHENIA—RELATIONS AND TREATMENT.

Of the many causes of hysteria, epilepsy and neurasthenia one of the most frequent and important seems to me to be toxicity in some form. Yet it has heretofore received little attention as an etiologic factor in the induction of these affections, all of which may be regarded as diatheses of more or less profound nature. To the toxic element in these diseases I wish especially to draw your notice. The term toxicity should, however, be used in its broadest sense, namely, functional cellular perversion, causing or being caused by abnormal chemic reactions. The ordinary forms of hysteria are certainly functional. I do not believe we shall ever discover pathologic alterations in the central nervous system, even of minute degree, upon which we may base those manifestations which we call hysteric. By this, however, we do not mean to assert that hysteria may not depend directly upon an organic lesion

HYSTERICAL APHONIA, OR PARALYSIS OF THE LATERAL CRICOARYTENOID MUSCLES.Read in the Section of Laryngology and Otology at the Forty-first Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Nashville, Tenn., May, 1890.

One of the most interesting manifestations of the group of symptoms which make up what is termed hysteria, is paralysis of the adductor muscles of the vocal cords. It is a singular fact in accordance with what might be termed a conservative law of pathological selection, that in nerve trunks not larger than a small knitting needle, in this disease only those fibres are involved which supply the adductor muscles, while adjoining fibres supplying the abductor muscles are not implicated. This is peculiarly fortunate, for otherwise this merely annoying affection would often become a fatal malady. This affection usually occurs in young women, but is sometimes observed later in life and has been met with even in children. Although termed hysterical, cases are not very infrequent among men. As the name implies, the disease is usually associated with some form of hysteria, but it sometimes