title: Hysteria in India: clinical aspects.
abstract: Two hundred fifteen cases (38 males, 177 females) of hysteria were studied, while the investigators kept in view the cultural factors affecting clinical presentations and influencing etiological aspects of emotional disorders. India hysterics of either sex presented with multiple symptoms, usually combinations of physical and psychogenic manifestations. There was no significant difference between clinical presentations as observed in the two sexes. Sensory disturbances, paraplegias, monoplegias were in low frequency. Although a wide range of premorbid personality patterns could be identified in the present study, the most frequently occurring personality in females was hysterical and in males antisocial. Family history and parental deprivation did not appear to offer any relationship towards the occurrence of hysteria.
mesh_terms: D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors