Hysteria Research Articles

Взаимосвязь отношения к болезни и социального восприятия у лиц с истерическим неврозом

Introduction. The study is aimed at examining the attitude to the disease of persons with hysterical neurosis in the aspect of coherence with the peculiarities of their social competence. Insufficient knowledge of thе problem field is shown, which resonates with an increase in the rate of disability of this contingent. The hypothesis is formulated that the subjects with hysterical neurosis have a disharmonious and maladapting egocentric attitude to the disease, interconnected with a significant violation of social perception. Empirical analysis. In a group of patients with hysterical neurosis, contamination of egocentric and sensitive types of attitude to the disease is recorded. A moderate decrease in the ability to read emotions by facial expressions, posture and gestures, understanding the logic of the development of social situations and anticipating their outcomes was revealed. There is a close feedback between the characteristics of disharmonious types of attitude to the disease, which cause sensitized interpsychic orientation, and a complex indicator of social intelligence. Conclusion. The revealed types of attitude to the disease cause an overestimated egocentric orientation, combined with vulnerability, preoccupation with thoughts about the impression made in connection with the disease. There are difficulties in concentrating on perceptual details, there is a selective fixation on subjectively significant aspects of the content of communication, which hinders social meta-analysis and disadapts in society.

Reflejos de la educación de la niña-adulta en el teatro contemporáneo: Frágil, del Teatro de los Andes (Bolivia)

Este artículo parte del análisis de una obra emblemática en la representación de la niña en la dramaturgia contemporánea latinoamericana: Frágil, del Teatro de los Andes (Bolivia). El objetivo es desvelar el paradigma sociocultural reflejado en el lenguaje confesional de la protagonista, en relación con los estudios de identidad femenina. Se realiza un análisis intertextual, examinando los intertextos de la pieza (Paola Masino, Boris Vian), y un análisis semiológico, reconociendo en los diálogos de la protagonista la construcción del género. En el texto se percibe cómo la sensibilidad negada, y la simbología que se atribuye a la transición entre mujer niña y mujer adulta -relacionada con la locura o histeria- nace como consecuencia de una educación castradora. Se descubre la materialización y la abyección atribuida a la condición de mujer (Kristeva, 1967; Butler, 1993), y se erige un discurso marginal: la voz de la niña-adulta que habla del peso de una herencia reprimida.

UŞAQ NEVROZLARI VƏ ONLARIN ƏMƏLƏ GƏLMƏ SƏBƏBLƏRİ

The article is devoted to the causes of neurosis in children. Some researchers note that the cause of neurosis is due to psychological factors. In their opinion, the cause of neuroses is the negative processes that a person faces throughout life. The article also describes the types of neuroses and their manifestations.Separately, such concepts as: neurasthenia, hysterical neurosis and obsessive-compulsive neurosis were revealed. Кеу words: child, teenager, communication, problem, development

Mándame cero besos. La sesión montessoriana

El artículo analiza algunos pasajes del método montessoriano, concibiéndolo como si de una gestión del gozo (jouissance) infantil se tratara: la capitalización educativa de la compulsión a la repetición del niño va derivando sucesivamente las pulsiones de éste hacia distintas casillas, desde la presentación del material educativo como objeto supuestamente predestinado del deseo, a la obsesión por la perfección y al histerismo en la inhibición como ejercicios didácticos en poco o nada concernidos por la funcionalidad del objeto, hasta llegar al escaque vacío de la falta constitutiva del sujeto—el ejercicio del cero.

The boy to whom things happen: case report of a condition once named “hysteria”

Introduction: Although banished from current mental disorders classifications, the condition formerly known as hysteria has clinical manifestations still puzzling to clinicians. Herein is briefly revised the historical concept of hysteria, as well as, psychological mechanisms underlying some of its current derivatives: conversive and dissociative disorders. Case report: A previously healthy 17-year-old boy presented with sudden onset of total strength loss in the lower limbs. After neurological assessment, the boy was diagnosed with conversion disorder. Two months later he developed trance and possession states requiring hospitalization, and later, dissociative amnesia. Despite psychological distress underlying patient’s symptoms, la belle indifference was also a meaningful issue. Discussion: This study presents a critical reflection about conversion and dissociative disorders and diagnostic challenges arising from their inconsistent and variable clinical features. Conclusion: With this case report, the authors intend to raise awareness to the risk of recurring care demand for care that can elicit iatrogenic harm and delayed proper treatment.

Psicanálise veterinária: Caso da personagem Ginger do livro Beleza Negra (Sewell, 1877)

Zooliteratura é um termo que se refere aos textos que abrangem de diferentes formas os animais presentes em obras literárias. Psicanálise é um método utilizado para tratar problemas de saúde mental das pessoas, tendo como referência as falas dos pacientes. Animais também podem ter desequilíbrios na sua saúde mental. O objetivo deste artigo é utilizar uma personagem da espécie equina da literatura de ficção para estabelecer uma base da psicanálise veterinária, além de conhecer mais sobre a psique animal. A personagem Ginger da obra Beleza Negra de Anne Sewell, em sua versão original, por contar sua própria história em uma conversa com o protagonista. Ela sofreu muito em sua infância, primeiramente com a separação de sua mãe, depois com violências físicas e psicológicas de seres humanos. A partir da análise da personagem, foi pensado na histeria traumática como diagnóstico. Semelhante ao que seria em um equino real. Este conhecimento implica em questões éticas. A psicanálise animal seria limitada, por não ter a fala dos animais, embora, através de suas expressões e vocalizações, aliado com o histórico, poderia se conhecer mais sobre o seu íntimo e a reposta do problema, sendo o tratamento medicamentoso ou com manejo. Também, conhecer mais da psicanálise serve para entender melhor a relação humano-animal-ambiente. Por fim, a zooliteratura pode ser uma forma de refletir sobre estas questões.

Hysteria in the Psychopathological Space of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Comments to S.M. Popov’s Article “The History of the Formation of Concepts and Modern View on Hysteria in Endogenous Mental Diseases” (Psychiatry. 2019;17(4):90–101)

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Reseña bibliográfica de:
 Frank M. Snowden (2019). Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press.
 Mark Honigsbaum (2019). The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris. Londres: Hurst Publishers, 2019.

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris

Evolution of the concept of psychopathy in Russian psychiatry from V.H. Kandinskiy to S.A. Sukhanov

The development of the concept of clinical signs of «general» predisposition to mental diseases that is defined by the notion of psychopathy is analyzed. The foundations of this concept in Russian psychiatry were laid by V.H. Kandinskiy and V.M. Behterev, hereinafter they were developed by S.S. Korsakov, P.I. Kovalevskiy and V.P. Serbskiy. S.A. Sukhanov and P.B. Gannushkin focused on the separate types of abnormal character that were connected with different neurosis and «degenerative» psychosis. According to S.A. Sukhanov's concept, the anxious-doubting (psychasthenic) character with the amplification of its symptoms transits to psychasthenia, the patological reasoning character (close to paranoic) to delusional disorders (or paranoic psychosis), hysterical character to hysterical neurosis, «morally defective» character to «moral madness». S.A. Sukhanov suggested the systematics of abnormal characters not by one prominent trait but by the presence of several signs from more broad set of traits that generally are typical for the given abnormal character.

영화 〈혐오스런 마츠코의 일생〉의 여성 히스테리 신경증 분석

일본의 나카시마 테츠야 감독의 영화 〈혐오스런 마츠코의 일생〉은 뮤지컬적인 스타일과 화려한 색채뿐만 아니라 남성중심주의 사회의 억압에서 살아간 한 여성의 삶을 보여주어 관객의 공감과 큰 사랑을 받았다. 특히 히스테리 신경증자로 연출된 주인공 마츠코의 캐릭터가 영화가 전달하는 메시지에 절묘하게 융합되어 달콤하고 유쾌한 비극을 반영하였다.<BR> 히스테리 신경증자는 타자가 상실한 대상과의 관계 속에서 타자의 욕망을 지배하기 위해 자신이 타자의 특정한 대상이 되려고 한다. 히스테리 신경증자는 타자의 욕망을 지속시키기 위한 특정한 대상이 되려고 하며 욕망이 불만족스러운 상태로 유지된다. 이것은 충족되지 못한 욕망에 대한 욕망이다. 히스테리는 대타자와의 동일시를 통해 주체를 찾아간다. 히스테리 신경증 여성은 자신의 무의식적 욕망과 심리적 갈등을 자신이 속한 문화에서 타자가 인정하는 증상이나 행위로 치환하여 표현한다. 신경증자는 억압에 의해 자신의 존재를 상실하며 타자의 욕망에 의존하며 타자로부터 분리될 수 없다. 대타자가 억압하여 신경증자는 타자의 욕망에 의해 자신의 욕망을 구성한다.<BR> 히스테리 신경증은 타자의 욕망이 되려고 노력하는 주체이기 때문에 타자의 욕망을 살펴보면서 주체에게 억압을 가한 대상을 찾아내어 사회의 문제점을 발견할 수 있다. 〈혐오스런 마츠코의 일생〉은 가부장체제의 피해를 받은 한 여성의 절망적인 삶을 연출하였다. 히스테리 신경증자의 특성에 따라 마츠코는 아버지의 분리된 주체로 존재하고 아버지라는 타자로부터 분리되어 주체화된 인생을 살 수 없게 된다. 영화 속 마츠코는 어린 시절 아버지의 영향으로 시작하여 남성중심주의 세상에서 억압을 받으며 주체성을 잃었다. 마츠코는 타자인 아버지의 욕망을 지속시킬 대상이 되려고 노력하였고 대상a의 자리에 위치하게 되었다. 마츠코는 남성의 욕망과 동일시하며 남성을 바라보며 추종한다. 영화는 불쌍한 여인이 남성을 추종하면서 혐오스런 일생을 살게 된 것으로 남성중심주의 사회를 비판하였다.<BR> 신경증이 주체의 보편적인 구조라면 이 영화의 목표는 신경증을 없애려는 것이 아니라 억압을 받고 있는 주체의 위치를 바로잡는 것이다. 그리고 그 억압의 근원은 성별이 아니라 사회이다.

Hysteria in children

Hysteria in children

Hysteria treated by suggestion 100 years ago.

Hysteria treated by suggestion 100 years ago.

Place de l’hystérie dans les nosographies psychopathologiques et les approches psychodynamiques contemporaines

AimThe aim of this study is to focus on the place of hysteria in psychiatric nosographies and the psychoanalytic conceptions of the 21st century, across the different classification models: the diagnostic criteria are very heterogeneous, and this does not facilitate pluridisciplinary teamwork. MethodA literature review to analyse place and evolution of hysterical neurosis in national and international psychiatric nosographies (DSM, ICD10, CFTM) and in psychoanalytic conceptualizations (PDM, the structural approaches of Bergeret and Lacan, the processual approaches of Roussillon and Benedetti). ResultsWe note a gradual disappearance of hysteria and neurosis in successive versions of the DSM, from DSM-3 to DSM-5. Hysteria is broken down into several disorders in the ICD10. This makes it more difficult to reach a consensual diagnosis in a clinical team. Conversely, hysteria has retained its founding and fundamental place in all psychoanalytical nosographies. DiscussionThe divide between the American DSM-5 psychiatric nosography and psychoanalytical nosographies seems increasingly marked in the field of neuroses, despite the beginnings of an integration of a dimensional perspective. We can also note the plurality of views of hysteria within the psychoanalytic field. Authors present hysteria either as a neurosis or as a personality structure that is able to function on an adaptive or decompensated mode (Bergeret). The plurality of theoretical models constructed to understand hysteria has resulted in a transnographic extension of hysteria, since several authors (Roussillon, Benedetti) postulate that it is possible to find hysterical elements in the most severe narcissistic disorders. ConclusionWhile it seems difficult to construct an integrative model including the anthropological, psychodynamic and biological dimensions of hysteria, making it possible to reach a consensual diagnosis in a clinical team, the numerous theoretical models in the psychodynamic field provide each clinician with useful benchmarks to understand and to manage hysteria.

Le deuil médiatique, une forme spécifique du deuil post-traumatique

Resume Dans un contexte societal ou les morts dans des contextes traumatiques sont de plus en plus souvent mediatisees, cet article vise a mieux comprendre les incidences de cette mediatisation sur le processus de deuil des personnes ayant perdu un proche dans ces situations. La mort ou la menace de mort surajoutee a la perte d’un proche dans une circonstance mediatisee fait de ces deuils post-traumatiques des circonstances bien particulieres entrainant un processus de deuil complexe qui intrique l’adaptation a la perte du proche perdu, l’apprivoisement et l’elaboration de ses propres troubles post-traumatiques et la gestion de l’intrusion mediatique et societale dans leur intimite. Cet article abordera dans un premier temps le rappel sur la clinique du deuil post-traumatique, puis la specificite du deuil mediatique et nous envisagerons dans un troisieme temps les perspectives de prises en charge dans ce type de contexte.

A Pastoral-theological Study on Freedom from Anti-communism Hysteria:

A Pastoral-theological Study on Freedom from Anti-communism Hysteria:

Trauma as “the bedrock of hysteria”

Trauma as “the bedrock of hysteria”

The Sorrows of Modern Subjectivity: Capital, Infinity Disease, and Werther's Hysterical Neurois

In this article I analyze Werther, the protagonist of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther . I argue that Werther and his sorrows must be understood within the context of the unique configuration of alienation(s) present in modern societies, characterized by the sui generis combination of capital, egoism and anomie, and asceticism. Further, I argue the sociologically alienating conditions of modern societies create neurotic subjects of repression who lack compensatory symbols of moral worth, which drives them to pursue equivalent signification via fantasy. Finally, I argue that Werther represents an extreme case of hysterical neurosis emanating from the configuration of alienation(s) in modern societies, and that his suicide is best interpreted as a magical, sacrificial act whereby he transfixes his hysterical fantasy in fantasy, allowing him to fantasmatically expropriate symbolic compensation in perpetuity. I end the paper with a brief discussion of what might be done today about the problems posed by the course of the analysis.

Game on: Trump has jumped on the ban video games bandwagon. The hysteria is increasing, and potentially unjustified

Game on: Trump has jumped on the ban video games bandwagon. The hysteria is increasing, and potentially unjustified

Gli ebrei, un popolo di nevrastenici: una costruzione culturale della psichiatria europea tra Otto e Novecento

Since the second half of the 19th century, the idea that Jews were particularly subject to specific nervous pathologies, especially neurasthenia, has been the object of a wide-ranging debate among the most authoritative European psychiatrists. The idea that “A neurasthenic trait passes over the whole race” might represent a conclusive and significant phase in this vast international controversy. This normative code was conceptualized primarily by Charcot and in his school. Included in the epistemic framework of hysterical neurosis, such an interpretation exinplained that the ancient image of the wandering Jew, with an uncertain gait and a flaccid body, far from being the result of a divine curse, was the outcome of a racial predisposition aggravated by the practice of consanguineous marriages. The debate became more intense, it became a mere statistical fact, it created some resistance and perplexity, but was strongly acquired by many Jewish intellectuals who, however, attenuated its most negative consequences. This article reconstructs the dissemination and variations of this important normative code, which was re-proposed for many decades: during the Fascist era, for example, an important paradigmatic change left the code virtually undetected, while at the same time repeating it in an increasingly schematic way. In different contexts, the code marked a strangeness of the Jewish people vis-a-vis the purity of the body of the Nation, placing itself at the centre of important dilemmas concerning the model of modern civilization, aesthetic canons, and gender roles.