Hysterical Conversion: a Prognostic Study
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 136 (6) , 548-551
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.136.6.548
Abstract
Summary: This is a study of the symptoms and treatment of 61 patients with hysterical conversion. The incidence rate is high and the clinical picture showed different qualities from that seen in other studies. Treatment by suggestion under various procedures produced favourable results. All symptoms were removed, and after twelve months follow-up only 12 patients relapsed. Symptom substitution was minimal. The prognosis is related, among other things, to the duration of the symptoms before treatment.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Observations on the Evolution of the Hysterical SymptomatologyThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1976
- THE AFTER-RESULTS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY IN 500 ADULT CASESBMJ, 1935