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Twentieth Century Demonology, Pejorative Epithet, or Useful Diagnosis?

William C. Lewis, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1974;30(2):145-151.

Abstract
Consultant psychiatrists are often asked to evaluate patients on the dimension of "hysteria." The term continues to suffer erosion through recent changes in definition. Labeling is a dangerous as well as useful procedure. Recently acquired information makes a diagnostic toilette necessary and possible, so as to promote constructive use of the term and to avoid its misuse and abuse.

Author Affiliations
Madison, Wis

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wis.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 12, 1973.

Reprint requests to the University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1300 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706 (Dr. Lewis).

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