Couple relationship in hysterical patients staying in a psychiatric ward.
The study starts from the observation about the high frequency of hysteric patient that spontaneously ask the psychiatric admission often with a consent of the husband. The hospitalization has revealed important clinical information, gained by the use of integrated story. In fact extending the observation about the familiar context of the hysteric patient, and in particular to the interaction with the partner, have showed some redundance: 1) patient were especially household; 2) with a lower education level; 3) were married with sons in the age of independency; 4) live important life events; 5) the husbands were often involved with the families of origin; 6) the symptomatology presented; 7) the beginning of the symptomatology often happen after the marriage and the birth of the first son; 8) the husbands of these patients present mostly an obsessive personality with hypochondriac manner; 9) the patient often manifest several dissatisfied request.
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1a Clinica Psichiatrica, Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
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D002965:Classification; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000523:psychology*; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D009770:Obsessive Behavior; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital