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Hysteria and related mental disorders an approach to psychological medicine,

Hysteria and Related Mental Disorders: An Approach to Psychological Medicine deals with the problems of diagnosis and their bearing on management and treatment of hysteria and related hysteriform conditions. This book is composed of 16 chapters, and starts with a description of the etiology and psyc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abse, D. Wilfred, 1915-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, Wright, 1966.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Hysteria and Related Mental Disorders: An Approach to Psychological Medicine; Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY; 1. Scope and Purpose of the Work; 2. Historical Survey of Opinions held concerning the Nature of Hysteria; CHAPTER ll. AETIOLOGY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF HYSTERIA; 1. Mental Conflict and Symptom Formation; 2. The Importance of the Vita Sexualis; 3. The Oedipus Complex and the Role of the Actual Conflict; 4. The Disturbance of Repression; 5. The Point of Fixation; 6. The Castration Complex; 7. The Significance of the Hysterical Convulsion
  • CHAPTER III. CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF HYSTERIA IN INDIAN AND IN BRITISH SOLDIERSCHAPTER IV. DIAGNOSIS I: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF CONVERSION HYSTERIA FROM ORGANIC DISEASE; 1. Approach to Diagnosis; 2. Diagnostic Psychiatric Interview; 3. Differentiation from Organic Disease; 4. Iatrogenic Suggestion and the Stigmata; CHAPTER V. NEUROSIS AND PSYCHOSIS; CHAPTER VI. SCHIZOPHRENIA; Fundamental Symptoms: Thought Disorder, Affect Disorder and Ambivalence, and Autism; CHAPTER VII. DIAGNOSIS II : THE DIFFERENTIATION OF HYSTERIA FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA; CHAPTER VIII. HYSTERIA AND HYPNOID STATES
  • 1. The Existence of Hypnoid States2. Criteria for the Recognition of Hypnoid States; 3. The Border-line Personality and the Hypnoid State; 4. Some Preliminary Metapsychological Considerations; 5. Further Metapsychological Considerations; CHAPTER IX. MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; DISCUSSION; CHAPTER X. THE ACCIDENT-PRONE INDIVIDUAL; CHAPTER XI. THE CONCEPT OF DISSOCIATION; 1. Automatic Writing and Co-consciousness: Somnambulism and Sequential Alterations of Consciousness; 2. Fugue and Enactment of Wish Phantasies; Somnambulism and Compulsion to Repeat; 3. The Evolution of Janet's Concept
  • 4. Dissociation, Identification, and the Body ImageCHAPTER XII. DISSOCIATION AND COMMUNICATION; 1. Molar and Molecular Dissociation; 2. Glossolalia; 3. Reversion to Body Language; 4. Hysteria as a Communicative Disorder; CHAPTER XIII. THE SYNDROME OF GILLES DE LA TOURETTE; COMMUNICATIVE DISORDER; CHAPTER XIV. SYMBOLS, AFFECTS, AND LANGUAGE; 1. Symbolization and Communication; 2. Some Aspects of Language Development and the Conversion Process; 3. Affect Symbolism; CHAPTER XV. DIAGNOSIS III: THE DIFFERENTIATION OF CONVERSION HYSTERIA FROM PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC AUTONOMIC DISORDER
  • 1. Psychological Stress2. Psychophysiologic Disorder; 3. The Differentiating Features; 4. Psychosomatic Disorder: Concluding Remarks; CHAPTER XVI. PSYCHOTHERAPY; 1. Principal Types of Psychotherapy and Their Indications; 2. Problems in Evaluation of Psychotherapy; 3. The Psychotherapy of Hysteria; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SUBJECT INDEX; INDEX OF PROPER NAMES