Os autores fazem um resumo sobre os conceitos de histeria, enfatizando a grande contribuição de Charcot ao estudo da histeria.
histeria; conversão; distúrbios funcionais
Os autores fazem um resumo sobre os conceitos de histeria, enfatizando a grande contribuição de Charcot ao estudo da histeria.
histeria; conversão; distúrbios funcionais
| Time period | Researcher(s) | Concept/contribution | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient/ classical times (Egypt, Greece and Rome) | Hippocrates | Frustrated uterus | Lack of sexual intercourse |
| Toxic effects of the Wandering Womb | |||
| 18th and 19th centuries, prior to Charcot | Ferriar | Hysterical conversion | Sexual frustration |
| Briquet | Treatise on hysteria | Different clinical presentations of hysterical symptoms, ruled out the gynecological origin | |
| Laségue | Hysterical anesthesia, ataxia, cataplexy, cough | ||
| Charcot’s Salpêtrière’s years | Charcot | Hysteria as a neurological disease | Dynamic, functional lesion |
| Charcot and Richer | Four stages of the hysterical attack (grande hystérie): (1) Epileptoid; (2) Clownism; (3) emotional gestures (“attitudes passionnelles”); (4) final delirium. | ||
| Charcot | C’est toujours la chose sexuelle | Lack of sexual intercourse | |
| Charcot | Male hysteria | Traumatic shock | |
| Charcot | Hypnotism | ||
| Post-Charcot period | Babinski | Pithiatism | Psychic state prone to suggestion |
| Janet | Subconscious | Subconscious fixed ideas | |
| Freud | Conversion hysteria | ||
| Freud | Therapeutical catharsis | ||
| Vincent | Torpillage | ||
| Yelland | Shell shock | Traumatic (war) shock | |
