Hysterical patients

  • Joan Gomez
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Abstract

The diagnosis of hysteria is denigrated by some authorities and as passionately defended by others. The family clinician has no doubt of its existence in practice and the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision recognizes 8 subtypes of hysteria, hysterical personality and the related disorders: Briquet’s syndrome and hypochondriasis.

Keywords

Anorexia Nervosa Psychiatric Emergency Organic Brain Syndrome SOMATIZATION Disorder Sexual Guilt 
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