title: Hysterical psychosis: an empirical approach.
abstract: Criteria for hysterical psychosis set forth by Hollender and Hirsch were systematically applied to a representative sample of 217 patients hospitalized for the first time in their lives for functional psychiatric illness. Surprisingly, no patients who met all of these criteria were found.
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology