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Abrupt treatments of hysteria during World War I, 1914–18 (2018)

Macleod, Sandy (Author)

History of Psychiatry
Volume: 29
Issue: 2
Pages: 187-198
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

DOI: 10.1177/0957154X18757338

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X18757338

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Case studies Clinical medicine Medicine and ethics Medicine and the military; medicine in war Psychiatry Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment Hysteria War neuroses World War I 20th century, early

Case reports of the abrupt recovery of hysterical disorders during World War I (1914–18), though undoubtedly subject to publication bias, raise both aetiological and treatment issues regarding pseudo-neurological conversion symptoms. Published clinical anecdotes report circumstantial, psychotherapeutic, hypnotic, persuasive (and coercive) methods seemingly inducing recovery, and also responses to fright and alterations of consciousness. The ethics of modern medical practice would not allow many of these techniques, which were reported to be effective, even in the chronic cases.

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