The authors summarise the concepts of hysteria, emphasizing the seminal contribution of Charcot to its study.
hysteria; conversion; functional disorders
The authors summarise the concepts of hysteria, emphasizing the seminal contribution of Charcot to its study.
hysteria; conversion; functional disorders
Time period | Researcher(s) | Concept/contribution | Rationale |
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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 |