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A Case Study

PAUL FREDRIC SLAWSON, MD; P. WAVERLY DAVIDSON III, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1964;11(6):581-588.

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Introduction

Hysteria remains an awkward concept despite its long and vivid history. While excluded from the most recent formal nomenclature²⁵ the term finds daily use in modern psychiatry. But it means different things to different people. It may be a "distinct, recognizable syndrome," chronic in nature, characterized by vague complaints and multiple hospitalizations²⁴ or a type of personality structure typified by intense feelings of inadequacy, a tendency to repress aggressive feelings, and a powerful capacity for dramatization.²² Hysteria may be but one manifestation of the phenomenon called conversion²⁶ or the converse may be true.²⁴

It was through the study and treatment of this disorder that Freud⁷ discovered the principles and developed the practice of psychoanalysis. In dynamic psychiatry it has long been convenient to attempt understanding of an illness by seeing the symptoms as evidence of inadequate resolution with . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
LOS ANGELES

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (in residence) (Dr. Slawson) and Resident in Psychiatry (Dr. Davidson).

Department of Psychiatry, The School of Medicine, University of California Center for the Health Sciences.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 20, 1964.

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