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The survival of hysteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Aubrey Lewis
Aubrey Lewis
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, The Maudsley Hospital, London
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Synopsis

There have been many battles in the last 100 years between those who consider hysteria to be a ‘morbid entity’ or ‘disease’ and those who would like to drop it once and for all. The controversy still goes on. It has not been settled by follow-up studies or by applying genetic considerations. Hysteria is a tough subject, unlikely to be killed so long as clinicians find it useful, if not indispensable.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1975 , pp. 9 - 12
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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