Hysteria in childhood: a note on Proctor's incidence figures 27 years later.
Confirmation of Proctor's 1958 estimate of high incidence of hysterical phenomena among a rural child psychiatric population is provided by recent observations on a small, random sample of children referred for psychological assessment in Australia. Demographic and other similarities between the two groups are discussed, and tentative directions for treatment are noted.
D001315:Australia; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000175:diagnosis; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory