title: Current concepts of hysteria.
abstract: Hysteria covers a variety of patterns of illness. The common element is that the symptoms relate to mistaken thoughts of illness or disability. Physiological processes can give rise to regional symptoms, e.g. pain. The diagnosis requires positive psychiatric evidence.
authors.affiliation: London Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Merskey
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male