Hysteria

The history of the concept of conversion hysteria and its neurobiological model

by Gábor Szendi

Published in Hungarian language in Psychiatria Hungarica. 2004 19(4):276-309

  Hysteria and the conversion symptoms have been a vague phenomenon for centuries. After a short review of the... more   Hysteria and the conversion symptoms have been a vague phenomenon for centuries. After a short review of the development of the concept of hysteria we summarize the newest neurobiological findings in conversion hysteria and point out the similarities between conversion and hypnotic phenomena. The relationship between trauma and conversion  symptoms is also discussed on neurobiological basis. Finally we review Oakley’s unifying model of hysteria and hypnosis.

Keywords: hysteria, conversion, hypnosis, trauma, neurobiology, unifying model

Anatomy of a Cargo Cult: Virginity, Relic Envy, and Hallowed Boxes

by Ryan Byrne

Resurrecting the Brother of Jesus, eds. Ryan Byrne and Bernadette McNary-Zak (University of North Carolina Press, 2009) pp. 137-186

Marina Núñez

by Dianne Hunter

Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism: The Case of Anna O.

by Dianne Hunter

The makings of Dr. Charcot's hysteria shows: research through performance

by Dianne Hunter

The Makings of Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows: Research Through Performance (Studies in Theatre Arts)(v. 4)

by Dianne Hunter

«Representing mad contradictoriness in Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows»

by Dianne Hunter

Letture shakespeariane

by Dianne Hunter

[Book Review: The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents Elisabeth Bronfen]

by Dianne Hunter

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by Adam Seth Lowenstein

Filozofske implikacije pojmovanja histerije skozi prizmo psihoanalize

by Aljaž Jelenko

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by Jennifer Wallis

History of the Human Sciences 23:4 (Oct. 2010), 113-116.

Reading Hysteria: Representations of Bertha Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's _Jane Eyre_ and Jean Rhys's _Wide Sargasso Sea_

by Amy Crawford

Paper read at the "Hysteria Through the Ages" Colloquium at Anglia Ruskin University, 21 July 2011

A neuroscience of hysteria?

by Matthew Broome

http://journals.lww.com/co-psychiatry/Abstract/2004/11000/A_neuroscience_of_hysteria_.8.aspx

Abstract
Purpose of review: This paper reviews data from functional neuroimaging studies that have sought to... more Abstract
Purpose of review: This paper reviews data from functional neuroimaging studies that have sought to determine the pathophysiology of motor conversion and sets it into a more conceptual framework of discussing the possibility of a scientific psychopathology.

Recent findings: Medically unexplained symptoms are real and not missed neurological morbidity; further, they are chronic and disabling. Imaging findings have suggested volition may or may not be impaired in motor conversion, and areas such as the anterior cingulate and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex have been implicated.

Summary: Hysteria is conceptually a difficult area to study scientifically, given the diagnosis being contingent upon unconscious mechanisms being posited. Given this difficulty, there have been some meaningful and elegant findings generated through the use of cognitive neuroscience.

Review of: Georges Charbonneau: La situazione esistenziale delle persone isteriche. Intensità, centralità e rappresentazioni figurative. Roma. Fioriti 2007. In: POL.it: The Italian on Line Psychiatric Magazine, 2008

by Elisabetta Basso

Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness In Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine

by Helen King

published in 'Medical History'

Once Upon a Text: Hysteria From Hippocrates

by Helen King

See also http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft0p3003d3&chunk.id=d0e760&toc.id=d0e753&brand=ucpress

HAMLET'S Hysterical Form (1999)

by Dianne Hunter

published in LITERATURE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS, ed. F. Pereira (Lisbon 2001).

The design of HAMLET acts as a vehicle for the psychology of hysteria as histrionic mourning and theatricalized... more The design of HAMLET acts as a vehicle for the psychology of hysteria as histrionic mourning and theatricalized self-division. HAMLET can serve as a model for the splitting and theatricalization often noted in the clinical and cultural history of hysteria, demonstrating the relationship between a particular psychology and a particular dramatic form.