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Clinical aspects of hysteria
Author(s) -
Hafeiz H. B.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1986.tb02742.x
Subject(s) - hysteria , incidence (geometry) , personality , psychiatry , conversion disorder , medicine , dissociative , psychology , psychoanalysis , physics , optics
This is a clinical study of 80 patients, diagnosed as suffering from hysteria, who attended the psychiatric clinic in Khartoum Hospital over a period of 3 years. The incidence of hysteria was 10%, the female‐male ratio 15:1, and young age‐groups predominate. 60% were essentially of normal personality. The clinical picture was fairly consistent. Hysterical conversion was the commonest clinical form (76%) and the dissociative type was rare. The patients with recurrent and vague bodily complaints could be labelled as histrionic.