Clinical aspects of hysteria.
This is a clinical study of 80 patients, diagnosed as suffering from hysteria, who attended the psychiatric clinic in Khartoum Hospital over a period of 3 years. The incidence of hysteria was 10%, the female-male ratio 15:1, and young age-groups predominate. 60% were essentially of normal personality. The clinical picture was fairly consistent. Hysterical conversion was the commonest clinical form (76%) and the dissociative type was rare. The patients with recurrent and vague bodily complaints could be labeled as histrionic.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006677:Histrionic Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D012931:Social Environment; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications; D013397:Sudan