Hystérie
Hystérie
Hysteria is a neurosis very common both in men than in women, characterized by emotional extremely important application, a rich fantasy life, the sentiments expressed in an exaggerated manner, and frequent somatic signs (somatic conversion).
Hysteria is a disease with varied manifestations. Unconscious psychic conflicts are expressed symbolically in bodily symptoms and / or psychological, paroxysmal or sustained. In the hysterical neurosis, anxiety is diverted refused, unknown to the subject, the somatic pathway. It materializes, is expressed in functional impairment that may eventually become organic and whose origin may escape the doctor. Freud established the origin of sexual conflict and the role of repression and conversion, with defective resolution of the Oedipus complex. Hysteria is not the simulation. The simulator will cheat while the hysteric is mistaken himself while he deceives the entourage.
Disorders are paroxysmal syncopal attacks, tetanus.Disorders of consciousness are possible as well as memory disorders, sexuality, intellectual inhibition. Diagnosis is difficult because the doctor should not ignore a possible organic disease while avoiding to engage in a series of unnecessary tests and expensive.
Treatment is difficult. It is based first on a neutral but empathetic. Isolation (hospitalization) is often helpful. Anxiolytics and antidepressants are used during episodes anxiodepressive. Psychotherapy is helpful.
They are not crazy, but sometimes they seem. For some traits of their character border on pathological. And exasperate those around them. Who are they? A husband, a colleague. You, perhaps. Portraits.
Isabelle Taubes
For psychologists, normality does not exist. Or rather, explains Dr. Christian Spadone, a psychiatrist at the Hospital Sainte-Anne in Paris, ‘the normal personality is composed of various personality traits found in mental disorders.’An example? Distrust. This trait is widespread. We have all, to varying degrees, fear of ‘we do have,’ because we know that our kind is not necessarily well-intentioned towards us. But if we are confident of being surrounded only by enemies eager to harm us, we leave the distrust ordinary falling into paranoïa.C is this passage from ‘sometimes’ to ‘always’, the trend of systematicity, signing the pathological personality. Ways to rub the strangeness are many psychic. Persons most frequently? Obsessive, hysterical and paranoid. We expect necessarily around us – ourselves? – That we have a problem. Why this behavior? How did he cope?
‘My ex-husband nearly drove me mad,’ says Lilia. By dint of hearing the suspect world of wishing him ill, I had finished I also see enemies everywhere. If a neighbor down the garbage at the same time, he claimed it was to watch him.He had especially in the sights our upstairs neighbor, a single woman who was receiving a lot and listened to loud music. He related that the taunting and trying to impersonate a poor helpless and uneducated. In revenge, he has written to taxes that it defrauded. He refused to let my parents take our son on vacation, my mother, he said, trying to mount against him. One day he even accused me of deceiving him. He had put this idea in mind because I decided to diet. Unable to reason. And say that at first I took this maniacal jealousy for love! Of course, early on, I noticed that he was suspicious nature. But it was the day he was fired from his job he really tripped. ‘The explanation psySuspicion, persecution mania, delusional jealousy, love of revenge, tend to feel offended over nothing, intellectual rigidity, Hubris: here we recognize the hallmarks of the paranoid personality.It has long attempted to find a genetic, hereditary. But today, the psychological explanations prevail. The paranoia resulting from poor early relationship to the mother. The child, unable to find the right distance with her, sees it as a deity as powerful unsettling. Suspicion then it will extend to all human beings. For him, the world is full of thieves, liars, unworthy of living beings. And he is tormented by the desire to repair this injustice, because he believes that his role on Earth is to bring order. Many military officials are paranoid. Stalin and Hitler were.
‘Chris is horrifying, Martin complained, her office colleague. Smoky eye, neck to the navel, short skirt, she wanders into wiggling buttocks and then pretends to be surprised that men are delighted at him or make proposals’ dishonest . Even when she speaks job with the department head, she simpers.We discuss a movie or a show? She has always ‘loved’ or ‘hated’. Always in excess. She did not laugh, she chuckles. The other day she had a problem with a colleague. Instead of dealing with things head on, she moaned like a little girl: ‘You do not love me? You want me? ‘She monopolizes attention by telling his disappointments in love. Apparently, she clings to someone who makes fun of her. Weird for a girl who claims that all men are at her feet. Strange also his ability to always complain about a headache or stomach. At the same time, it can be fun: it is thin and quickly understand. And when it happens a tile, it sincerely sympathizes. ‘The explanation psyBesoin to seduce, to show sexualization of relationships, emotions, drama, great ability to communicate and empathize, to instruct the body tend to express psychological conflicts: they are the dominant traits of personality hysterical.One way to be underpinned by an inexhaustible demand for love. ‘Look at me, I need you!’ Continues she supplicate internally. The hysterical personality is similar to the child who fears being deprived of the nourishing milk and abandoned. We all carry within us an element of hysteria. She drives us to relate with others, to seek and give love. But the hysteria becomes pathological when it expresses an inability to relinquish the oedipal attachment to the father. Why it concerns women, or the ‘feminine side’ of men. Indeed, it is a normal stage of development where the boy tries to seduce him as her father, as would a woman. The survival of this stage in the unconscious, reflects the famous ‘femininity’ of man. In seeking to please all sides, ‘the hysteric unconsciously aspires to realize her fantasy of basic conquer his father. A project doomed to failure. Where dissatisfaction, complaints chronic depressive access.To ensure they understood the hysteric force the line and shows his emotions loudly. But represses those who disturb him in his unconscious. Also, his body goes there often speak instead of his words, causing headaches or stomachaches. Simultaneously, it is often an energetic, intuitive and humorous.
The definition of hysteria by Antoine Porot is ‘a particular mental disposition, sometimes constitutional and permanent, sometimes accidental and temporary, leading some subjects to present the appearance of physical infirmity or physical illnesses psychopathological states. .The combination of permanent or recurring events, frequently paralysis, speech impairment or sensitivity, and other transients, such as pseudo-epileptic seizures or comas ‘psychogenic’, is the most common form of this disease. Since Freud and Janet in particular, it is considered a neurosis whose history the concept has long been confused with that of hysteria.
This disease has disappeared from the new classifications (DSM and ICD) because of its connotation and psychoanalytic categories for histrionic personality disorder or somatoform disorder. The etiology of hysteria, inseparable from its social representation has evolved in function of the times and fashions. It is very mysterious and controversial. Note that excludes the diagnosis somatoform disorder patients – including Switzerland – assécurologiques certain benefits which can be regarded as a new way of denying the reality of the disorder.
In modern psychoanalysis
Jean Bergeret hysterical talk about structure (seeStructure in psychopathology) he sees as the weakest link developed towards maturity: From the topographical point of view, the structure does not hysterical regression of the ego, but simply a topographical regression of the libido without temporal or dynamic regression . The hysterical structure has significant attachments to the phallic stage of Karl Abraham while maintaining strong oral component (…)
Psychosomatic
Psychoanalysis, then, will have to differentiate hysteria from other psychosomatic disorders. If the principle of conversion appears at first glance the same, there are several key differences. The main difference is structural and essential from the point of view of psychoanalytic psychopathology. If hysteria is a neurosis, other psychosomatic disorders can not be understood as referring only to the neurotic structure. The model of the transition from mental to physical is not the same. In hysteria is hysterical conversion, which involves a psychic history and a symbolic expression of erotic desire.The physical symptoms such as paralysis, can be analyzed and reveals the historical past psychic.
In psychosomatic disorders, the symptom involves much more a rejection of psychic life. What the psychic, even unconscious, do not support, so the representations that are denied, foreclosed from the psychic life, cause medical problems, but not unconscious meaning. Psychosomatic School of Paris (IPSO) following the work of Pierre Marty, Michel Fain, etc.. showed that there was at issue is the lack or absence of symbolization: the impulse untreated mentally on the model of dream work, but it attacks the body without mediation, it is called of operational thinking. For cases where the organ damage is not too developed, the analyst’s work will be, in the words of Joyce McDougall, hysteresis of the symptoms.
Hysteria and psychoanalysis
Studies on Hysteria
This is the work done with Sigmund Freud Joseph Breuer who put on the trail of the construction of the psychoanalytic model.Continuing the psychogenic hypothesis of some of his predecessors, he has given the hysteria and neurosis their letters of nobility.
By 1883, Joseph Breuer to Freud spoke of his treatment of his patient Anna O. aka Bertha Pappenheim who suffered from hysterical disorders. Avatars transference-transference and cons of this treatment led Breuer until recently led to a series of works. It was in Paris in the services of Professor Charcot in 1885 that Freud’s hysteria about a school of choice. He admired and was impressed by Charcot’s hypnosis with hysterics at the Salpetriere but he parted from his master organismic hypothesis in favor of an etiology psycho. The case study Emma illustrates the model adopted by Freud at the time. This young woman suffering from ‘hysterical phobia’ of stores where she could not go alone.Freud led him to associate and returns a memento of adolescence when, while she was shopping in a store, she saw two young men – she remembers one of them – laughing together, and , seized with a sort of affect of fright, fled. This memory leads to another, aged eight years she has gone twice alone in the shop of a grocer (…). The boss grabbed her genitals through her clothes. Despite this first experience, she went there again (…) as if it had meant thereby to provoke the attack. The first scene from the consciousness can be explained when only the first is reinterpreted as an afterthought in its sexual dimension. Because she became after puberty and by associations of ideas that young men and their attitude is taking a dimension from the traumatic impact of the attack in the grocery store when she was eight. One can not be understood without the other. ‘The hysteric suffers from reminiscences! ‘Freud says.
Indeed, in 1893, Freud and Breuer published their studies where they analyze the causal psycho and treatment by the cathartic method. Freud developed the concepts of defense psychoneurosis and libido. Two years later will be published Studies on Hysteria. Breuer did not agree with Freud on the fact that all the hysteria had suffered sexual trauma, mostly adult seduction, or in our current terms ‘abuse’. He shared the idea with cons that trauma was the cause of hysterical disorders.
Metapsychological model: displeasure and discharge
Hysteria traumatic prefigures the psychoanalytic model of neurosis. In a first phase, it was to respect the idea drawn from the neurology of trauma at the origin of a disorder before coming to a psychological model (metapsychological) free of neurology. Freud notes that the physical symptoms, if related to a mental disorder, are rooted in the history of psychosexual subject. Hysteria is the bodily response to a sexual trauma in childhood.This is the first theory, that of a real event because of a psychic trauma: the famous neurotica. In the ‘Draft K’ letters to Fliess, Freud discusses the etiology of hysteria: Hysteria necessarily presupposes a primary experience of unpleasure, so passive in nature (p.218). It also highlights the crucial role of discharge. Later in the ‘Outline’ he adds, (…) the hysterical repression occurs clearly using ‘training symbol’ of travel on other neurons.
Abandonment of Neurotica
In a letter to Wilhelm Fliess of September 21, 1897, he writes: And now I must confide to you immediately the great secret that, during recent months, has slowly started to become clear. I no longer believe in my ‘Neurotica.’ He abandons the assumption of a first event and lived to pass the other is that of trauma resulting from a fantasy of seduction brought by the hysteric who becomes so and this is the real novelty status a psychic trauma.Much has been said about this change of theory, including Freud was thus led to neglect of the real abuses that many of his patients have suffered. It is not impossible but nonetheless with this change of perspective, Freud’s psychic life happen for a status of ‘reality’ that he never had before. He puts the same level – or nearly so, it is discussed – the impact of external trauma, abuse, experienced violence, etc.. and an ‘event’ of the intrapsychic life hatched by the Oedipus complex to be discovered him shortly after discovery related in the same correspondence with Fliess. Andrew Green wrote in 1972 about this change in theory: What is at stake is not acted upon seduction, it is the minimal signs, bearing such a desire that are recognized by the daughter, as the jealous recognizes seductive behavior of his lover against the rival. What is at stake is the public ignorance of the desire of the girl who wants to be seduced.
Note that long before the critics by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, for example, Sándor Ferenczi reproached Freud abandoned this neurotica. Confusion in language, it will address the question of a real seduction of a child by an adult, including the seduction as the confusion of two registers: the genital sexuality, which is specific to adult, and that of infantile sexuality.
In any event, what remains is that one way or another, the concept of trauma in the external reality or psychic reality subsists in the etiology of neurosis and hysterical she will be repeated in most subsequent theories of Freud, especially in the second topic in 1924.
The Oedipus complex and bisexuality in hysteria
In correspondence with Fliess, Freud’s Oedipus complex talks but he does not theorize, especially for hysteria. In 1910 he included in his universalizing theories.So in subsequent theories and those of other psychoanalysts need to turn to find the pooling of hysterical disorders and the Oedipus complex and castration complex. In the Dora case (1905), the role of Oedipal desire is well planned and Freud, although it was certainly wrong in his psychoanalytic technique as written by Michael Neyraut particular, had sensed that much, to use the term of Neyraut: Behind K. .. there is the father of Dora Freud unmasks in a short time, the father behind the housekeeper there, behind the housekeeper, there Mrs K. .. and behind everyone ago Freud (p. 137). What’s happening in the treatment of Dora is a series of tubes that hide an eye that goes from the Oedipal attraction to Mr. K. .., then reversed that by identification with the father’s love objects : homosexual love for Frau K. .., for the housekeeper and then his mother. This is where the ‘psychological bisexuality’ Freud, according Neyraut and other analysts failed to treat cons-transference in this case of hysteria.Recall that Dora was a teenager that Freud had received for hysterical symptoms disgust, feelings of pressure on the upper body and the horror of men face to face with a tender woman, cough, aphonia, etc.. She had suffered an attempted seduction by a family friend, Mr. K. .. who had tried to kiss her. Note that Dora was also convinced Ms. K. .. had been the mistress of his father. She also updated the governess’s love for the same house that his father and warm attitude towards her was greatly dependent on the presence or absence thereof. In his absence, the governments were unavailable for Dora. This puts Freud on the trail’s attraction for Ms. Dora K. .., hiding it to his mother, for identification (ID hysterical), to ‘put themselves in the place’ and get the father’s love. In short Freud says, she was in love with her father. The whole experience of being understood as unconscious and under the seal of repression, displacement, etc.. It states:I learned to consider such unconscious romantic relationships between father and daughter, mother and son, as the revival of infant sensory nuclei. They are recognizable by their abnormal consequences. I have argued elsewhere (in the interpretation of dreams) with which manifested itself early sexual attraction between parents and children, and showed that the myth of Oedipus would probably be understood as a poetic adaptation of what is typical in these relationships. And it adds about neurotics: This girl’s early inclination for his father and son for his mother, which probably traces found in most people, should be considered early, more intense in predestined people to neurosis by its constitution (…).
Hysteria or conversion (conversion hysteria)
The conversion is the core of hysteria Freud says. In hysteria, the incompatible idea is rendered innocuous by the fact that its sum of excitation is transformed into something somatic. For this, I wish to propose the name of conversion. (…) The ‘I was able to break free of contradiction, but in return he undertook a symbol of memory, motor innervation insoluble or hallucinatory sensation returning incessantly.
Anxiety hysteria
The term was introduced by Wilhelm Stekel in 1908. Freud has resumed about little Hans to emphasize that from his point of view, the phobia does not constitute an independent disease process. He therefore noted a structural similarity with conversion hysteria.
In modern psychoanalysis
Jean Bergeret speaks structure hysterical (Cf.Structure psychopathology) that he sees as the weakest link developed towards maturity: From the topographical point of view, the structure does not hysterical regression of the ego, but a simple regression Topical libido without temporal or dynamic regression. The hysterical structure has significant attachments to the phallic stage of Karl Abraham while maintaining strong oral component (…)
Psychosomatic
Psychoanalysis, then, will have to differentiate hysteria from other psychosomatic disorders.If the principle of conversion appears at first glance the same, there are several key differences. The main difference is structural and essential from the point of view of psychoanalytic psychopathology. If hysteria is a neurosis, other psychosomatic disorders can not be understood as referring only to the neurotic structure. The model of the transition from mental to physical is not the same. In hysteria is hysterical conversion, which involves a psychic history and a symbolic expression of erotic desire. The physical symptoms such as paralysis, can be analyzed and reveals the historical past psychic.
In psychosomatic disorders, the symptom involves much more a rejection of psychic life. What the psychic, even unconscious, do not support, so the representations that are denied, foreclosed from the psychic life, cause medical problems, but not unconscious meaning. Psychosomatic School of Paris (IPSO) following the work of Pierre Marty, Michel Fain, etc.. showed that there was at issue is the lack or absence of symbolization:the drive is not treated psychologically on the model of dream work, but it attacks the body without mediation, we speak of operational thinking. For cases where the organ damage is not too developed, the analyst’s work will be, in the words of Joyce McDougall, hysteresis of the symptoms.
Hysteria, femininity and become the modern
For Hippocrates, the ancient Egyptians and many of their successors, including in medicine of the Enlightenment to Jean-Martin Charcot, the hysterical phenomenon was restricted to women as the origin of the word hysteria (uterus in Greek) points Moreover, from the outset. This pathology remained strongly associated with femininity, despite efforts in the nineteenth century by Charcot, Janet, Freud, Breuer, etc.. each of which has demonstrated the existence of hysteria in men.
Psychoanalysis, as a result of Fliess, laid the theoretical foundations of a constitutive bisexuality of all humans which fundamentally alters the understanding of the issue of hysteria.Note that hysterical conversion symptoms – with or without a crisis or large-small– have virtually disappeared from the clinical field in favor of more subtle symptoms often where eroticism and repression are dominant. Theatricality, infantile exhibitionism, the artificiality of expressions of emotion are some of the modern expressions of this trend which is also subject to fads. As anyone can see, they are the preserve of women, which was more the case in the early twentieth century.
Symptoms called ‘psychosomatic’ or ‘somatoform’ does not fall within them partially or hysteria as it has been theorized by psychoanalysis. DSM and ICD classifications have solved a problem description but not the question of the etiology, much less treatment. The ‘painful somatoform disorder’ is just excluded from organic fields and is the only status that it is also acknowledged. For the rest, the mystery is over:how is it that somatic symptoms not explained by a conversion mechanism symbolic showing up daily at the clinic of general internists and rheumatologists? Nobody knows but the phenomenon is real.
Hysteria and psychoanalysis
Studies on Hysteria
This is the work done with Sigmund Freud Joseph Breuer who put on the trail of the construction of the psychoanalytic model. Continuing the psychogenic hypothesis of some of his predecessors, he has given the hysteria and neurosis their letters of nobility.
By 1883, Joseph Breuer to Freud spoke of his treatment of his patient Anna O. aka Bertha Pappenheim who suffered from hysterical disorders. Avatars transference-transference and cons of this treatment led Breuer until recently led to a series of works. It was in Paris in the services of Professor Charcot in 1885 that Freud’s hysteria about a school of choice.He admired and was impressed by Charcot’s hypnosis with hysterics at the Salpetriere but he parted from his master organismic hypothesis in favor of an etiology psycho. The case study Emma illustrates the model adopted by Freud at the time. This young woman suffering from ‘hysterical phobia’ of stores where she could not go alone. Freud led him to associate and returns a memento of adolescence when, while she was shopping in a store, she saw two young men – she remembers one of them – laughing together, and , seized with a sort of affect of fright, fled. This memory leads to another, aged eight years she has gone twice alone in the shop of a grocer (…). The boss grabbed her genitals through her clothes. Despite this first experience, she went there again (…) as if it had meant thereby to provoke the attack. The first scene from the consciousness can be explained when only the first is reinterpreted as an afterthought in its sexual dimension.Because she became after puberty and by associations of ideas that young men and their attitude is taking a dimension from the traumatic impact of the attack in the grocery store when she was eight. One can not be understood without the other. ‘The hysteric suffers from reminiscences! ‘Freud says.
Indeed, in 1893, Freud and Breuer published their studies where they analyze the causal psycho and treatment by the cathartic method. Freud developed the concepts of defense psychoneurosis and libido. Two years later will be published Studies on Hysteria. Breuer did not agree with Freud on the fact that all the hysteria had suffered sexual trauma, mostly adult seduction, or in our current terms ‘abuse’. He shared the idea with cons that trauma was the cause of hysterical disorders.
Metapsychological model: displeasure and discharge
Hysteria traumatic prefigures the psychoanalytic model of neurosis.In a first phase, it was to respect the idea drawn from the neurology of trauma at the origin of a disorder before coming to a psychological model (metapsychological) free of neurology. Freud notes that the physical symptoms, if related to a mental disorder, are rooted in the history of psychosexual subject. Hysteria is the bodily response to a sexual trauma in childhood. This is the first theory, that of a real event because of a psychic trauma: the famous neurotica. In the ‘Draft K’ letters to Fliess, Freud discusses the etiology of hysteria: Hysteria necessarily presupposes a primary experience of unpleasure, so passive in nature (p.218). It also highlights the crucial role of discharge. Later in the ‘Outline’ he adds, (…) the hysterical repression occurs clearly using ‘training symbol’ of travel on other neurons.
Abandonment of Neurotica
In a letter to Wilhelm Fliess of September 21, 1897, he wrote:And now I must confide to you immediately the great secret that, during recent months, has slowly started to become clear. I no longer believe in my ‘Neurotica.’ He abandons the assumption of a first event and lived to pass the other is that of trauma resulting from a fantasy of seduction brought by the hysteric who becomes so and this is the real novelty status a psychic trauma. Much has been said about this change of theory, including Freud was thus led to neglect of the real abuses that many of his patients have suffered. It is not impossible but nonetheless with this change of perspective, Freud’s psychic life happen for a status of ‘reality’ that he never had before. He puts the same level – or nearly so, it is discussed – the impact of external trauma, abuse, experienced violence, etc.. and an ‘event’ of the intrapsychic life hatched by the Oedipus complex to be discovered him shortly after discovery related in the same correspondence with Fliess.Andrew Green wrote in 1972 about this change in theory: What is at stake is not acted upon seduction, it is the minimal signs, bearing such a desire that are recognized by the daughter, as the jealous recognizes seductive behavior of his lover against the rival. What is at stake is the public ignorance of the desire of the girl who wants to be seduced.
Note that long before the critics by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, for example, Sándor Ferenczi reproached Freud abandoned this neurotica. Confusion in language, it will address the question of a real seduction of a child by an adult, including the seduction as the confusion of two registers: the genital sexuality, which is specific to adult, and that of infantile sexuality.
In any event, what remains is that one way or another, the concept of trauma in the external reality or psychic reality subsists in the etiology of neurosis and hysterical she will be repeated in most subsequent theories of Freud, especially in the second topic in 1924.
The Oedipus complex and bisexuality in hysteria
In correspondence with Fliess, Freud’s Oedipus complex talks but he does not theorize, especially for hysteria. In 1910 he included in his universalizing theories. So in subsequent theories and those of other psychoanalysts need to turn to find the pooling of hysterical disorders and the Oedipus complex and castration complex. In the Dora case (1905), the role of Oedipal desire is well planned and Freud, although it was certainly wrong in his psychoanalytic technique as written by Michael Neyraut particular, had sensed that much, to use the term of Neyraut: Behind K. .. there is the father of Dora;Freud unmasks in a short time, the father behind the housekeeper there, behind the housekeeper, there Mrs K. .. and behind everyone ago Freud (p. 137). What’s happening in the treatment of Dora is a series of tubes that hide an eye that goes from the Oedipal attraction to Mr. K. .., then reversed that by identification with the father’s love objects : homosexual love for Frau K. .., for the housekeeper and then his mother. This is where the ‘psychological bisexuality’ Freud, according Neyraut and other analysts failed to treat cons-transference in this case of hysteria. Recall that Dora was a teenager that Freud had received for hysterical symptoms disgust, feelings of pressure on the upper body and the horror of men face to face with a tender woman, cough, aphonia, etc.. She had suffered an attempted seduction by a family friend, Mr. K. .. who had tried to kiss her. Note that Dora was also convinced Ms. K. .. had been the mistress of his father.She also updated the governess’s love for the same house that his father and warm attitude towards her was greatly dependent on the presence or absence thereof. In his absence, the governments were unavailable for Dora. This puts Freud on the trail’s attraction for Ms. Dora K. .., hiding it to his mother, for identification (ID hysterical), to ‘put themselves in the place’ and get the father’s love. In short Freud says, she was in love with her father. The whole experience of being understood as unconscious and under the seal of repression, displacement, etc.. He says: I learned to consider such relationship unconscious love between father and daughter, mother and son, as the revival of infant sensory nuclei. They are recognizable by their abnormal consequences. I have argued elsewhere (in the interpretation of dreams) with which manifested itself early sexual attraction between parents and children, and showed that the myth of Oedipus would probably be understood as a poetic adaptation of what is typical in these relationships.And it adds about neurotics: This girl’s early inclination for his father and son for his mother, which probably traces found in most people, should be considered early, more intense in predestined people to neurosis by its constitution (…).
Hysteria or conversion (conversion hysteria)
The conversion is the core of hysteria Freud says. In hysteria, the incompatible idea is rendered innocuous by the fact that its sum of excitation is transformed into something somatic. For this, I wish to propose the name of conversion. The (…) I was able to break free of contradiction, but in return he undertook a symbol of memory, motor innervation insoluble or hallucinatory sensation returning incessantly.
Anxiety hysteria
The term was introduced by Wilhelm Stekel in 1908. Freud has resumed about little Hans to emphasize that from his point of view, the phobia does not constitute an independent disease process. He therefore noted a structural similarity with conversion hysteria.
DSM and ICD classifications
The power of psychiatry inspired by behaviourism have abandoned such models janétien and Freudian neuroses and particularly on the hysteria that has disappeared from the vocabulary for the categories of ICD somatoform disorder and histrionic personality disorder (DSM) which do not cover the concept of hysteria in that they focus exclusively to describe visible symptoms and arrest without presupposition underbody intrapsychic psychological.