HYSTERICAL PSYCHOSIS

Clinical features of 88 patients diagnosed as having hysterical psychosis are analysed and compared with those of an equal number of catatoaic schizophrenics and conversion reaction. Hysterical psychosis is characterised by acute onset. often following the occurence of an emotionally disturbing even...

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Autores principales: Kuruvilla, K., Sitalakshmi, N.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1982
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965937
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description Clinical features of 88 patients diagnosed as having hysterical psychosis are analysed and compared with those of an equal number of catatoaic schizophrenics and conversion reaction. Hysterical psychosis is characterised by acute onset. often following the occurence of an emotionally disturbing event, absence of any characteristic thought disturbance, and emotio.ial volatility. Prognosis is good. Even though physical methods of treatment like drugs and E.G.T. had to be used in many patients to control the acute disturbance, psychotherapy and family therapy were found to be essential for the abatement of presenting symptoms as well as prevention of their recurrences.
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spelling pubmed-30127952011-10-02 HYSTERICAL PSYCHOSIS Kuruvilla, K. Sitalakshmi, N. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Clinical features of 88 patients diagnosed as having hysterical psychosis are analysed and compared with those of an equal number of catatoaic schizophrenics and conversion reaction. Hysterical psychosis is characterised by acute onset. often following the occurence of an emotionally disturbing event, absence of any characteristic thought disturbance, and emotio.ial volatility. Prognosis is good. Even though physical methods of treatment like drugs and E.G.T. had to be used in many patients to control the acute disturbance, psychotherapy and family therapy were found to be essential for the abatement of presenting symptoms as well as prevention of their recurrences. Medknow Publications 1982 /pmc/articles/PMC3012795/ /pubmed/21965937 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short HYSTERICAL PSYCHOSIS
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