Hi Annette - Q1 is complicated, and doesn't have a clear-cut answer, largely because hysteria was such a remarkably broad category. But by and large, though, what was then called "hysteria" probably largely subsumes what are now somatoform disorders (especially somatization disorder and conversion disorder) and dissociative disorders (e.g., dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder, once called multiple personality disorder) - which were split into separate categories in 1980 in DSM-III (a decision that is still debated). For a discussion, see Hyler and Spitzer (1978):
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/135/12/1500 Answer to Q2 is indeterminate, but the best informed guess is probably "None." ....Scott Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) Emory University 36 Eagle Row Atlanta, Georgia 30322 [email protected] (404) 727-1125 Psychology Today Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/ The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 3:32 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Help with hysteria One of the students in my intro psych course is writing a paper for her English class on hysteria. I am not a clinician and I have a very limited ability to answer her questions she asked me. I could probably google some information--but then so could she. I know wikipedia has a good treatise. Specifically, she'd like to know two things: (1) what do we now label the disorders that used to be called hysteria. (2) what effect did the "old-fashioned" treatment for hysteria have on those disorders. Well, I know a little bit such as these are now pretty much subsumed by somatoform disorders and I have a sense that the treatments were quite ineffective back in the day when the diagnosis of hysteria was quite in vogue, such as complete sensory deprivation, isolation, a slap in the face, or cold water in the face, probaby just make the person more hysterical. Then along came psychoanalysis. Not sure how much that helped other than for factors common to most therapeutic interventions that are at least "kindly". So any specific guidance to sources would be appreciated. Thanks Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
