Hysteria and Related Mental Disorders

I.—Introductory 1. Scope and Purpose of the Work 2. Historical Survey of Opinions held concerning the Nature of HysteriaII.—Aetiology and Psychopathology of Hysteria 1. Mental Conflict and Symptom Formation 2. The Importance of the Vita Sexualis 3. The Oedipus Complex and the Role of the Actual Conflict 4. The Disturbance of Repression 5. The Point of Fixation 6. The Castration Complex 7. The Significance of the Hysterical ConvulsionIII.—Clinical Manifestations of Hysteria in Indian and in British SoldiersIV.—Diagnosis I: the Differentiation of Conversion Hysteria from Organic Disease 1. Approach to Diagnosis 2. Diagnostic Psychiatric Interview 3. Differentiation from Organic Disease 4. Iatrogenic Suggestion and the StigmataV.—Neurosis and PsychosisVI.—Schizophrenia Fundamental Symptoms: Thought Disorder, Affect Disorder and Ambivalence, and AutismVII.—Diagnosis II: the Differentiation of Hysteria from SchizophreniaVIII.—Hysteria and Hypnoid States 1. The Existence of Hypnoid States 2. Criteria for the Recognition of Hypnoid States 3. The Border-Line Personality and the Hypnoid State 4. Some Preliminary Metapsychological Considerations 5. Further Metapsychological ConsiderationsIX.—Multiple PersonalityX.—The Accident-Prone IndividualXI.—The Concept of Dissociation 1. Automatic Writing and Co-Consciousness: Somnambulism and Sequential Alterations of Consciousness 2. Fugue and Enactment of Wish Phantasies; Somnambulism and Compulsion to Repeat 3. The Evolution of Janet's Concept 4. Dissociation, Identification, and the Body ImageXII.—Dissociation and Communication 1. Molar and Molecular Dissociation 2. Glossolalia 3. Reversion to Body Language 4. Hysteria as a Communicative DisorderXIII.—The Syndrome of Gilles de la TouretteXIV.—Symbols, Affects, and Language 1. Symbolization and Communication 2. Some Aspects of Language Development and the Conversion Process 3. Affect Symbolism A. The Stream of Consciousness and the Expression of Feelings B. Affects and Subjective Awareness C. Affects and Calculation of the Probability of 'Good' and 'Bad' D. Anxiety E. Depression and Affect EquivalentsXV.—Diagnosis III: The Differentiation of Conversion Hysteria from Psychophysiologic Autonomic Disorder 1. Psychological Stress 2. Psychophysiologic Disorder 3. The Differentiating Features 4. Psychosomatic Disorder: Concluding RemarksXVI.—Psychotherapy 1. Principal Types of Psychotherapy and Their Indications 2. Problems in Evaluation of Psychotherapy 3. The Psychotherapy of Hysteria A. Historical Aspects B. Recent Concepts of Hysteria C. TreatmentBibliographySubject IndexIndex of Proper Names