The Analysis of Hysteria

by Merskey, Harold

• ISBN13: 9780902241886
• ISBN10: 0902241885
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-30
• Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Some traditional concepts	p. 3
Early neurological analyses	p. 19
The turn of the century	p. 29
The contribution of Freud	p. 36
Combat hysteria	p. 46
Ernst Kretschmer	p. 64
Post-traumatic stress disorder	p. 76
Malingering, self-damage and anorexia nervosa	p. 91
Amnesia, pseudodementia and the Ganser syndrome: denial of illness	p. 112
Compensation issues	p. 125
Organic brain disease	p. 141
Pain	p. 160
Somatisation disorder and somatisation	p. 172
Hypochondriasis	p. 185
The diversity of hysterical complaints	p. 200
Epidemic or communicable hysteria	p. 231
Chronic fatigue syndromes	p. 245
Children	p. 257
Suggestion and hypnotic phenomena	p. 263
'Multiple personality disorder'	p. 272
Dissociation, repression and false memories	p. 309
Personality traits	p. 335
Psychoses	p. 356
Psychoanalytic concepts	p. 368
The survival of hysteria	p. 379
Appendix A. E. F. Dubois d'Amiens: Comparative table of the symptoms of hypochondriasis and hysteria	p. 397
Appendix B. Emil Kraepelin: Hysterical insanity	p. 402
Appendix C. Sir Charles Symonds: Hysteria	p. 407
Appendix D. J. F. C. Hecker: Epidemics of the Middle Ages	p. 414
References	p. 422
Index	p. 469
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