GRE (Graduate Record Examinations) Psychology Clinical and Abnormal Psychology-Causes and Development of Disorders Study Material (Page 19 of 29)
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Hysteria: Symptoms and Causes of Conversive Hysteria
Symptoms of Conversive Hysteria
- Inner disturbance
- Involuntary and violent contractions of voluntary muscles
- Distortion of speech
- Stammering
- Aphonia (loss of voice)
- Loss of smell
- Loss of hearing
- Partial or complete loss of memory
- Emotional excitement
- Sense of inferiority
- Sense of being defective
- Emotional instability
- Loss of intelligence
Causes of Conversive Hysteria
- Suppressed conflicts
- Personality
- Hope of compensation
- Guilt feeling
- As a protection from unpleasant situation
- Inability to retain lost social position
- Weak-ego
- Faulty discipline
- Extroversion
- Maladjustment
- Challenging stress for long duration
- Uncontrolled fantasies of childhood
Hysteria: Treatment of Conversive Hysteria and Dissociative Hysteria
Treatment of Conversive Hysteria
Refer Therapeutic Approaches in topic list on the below mentioned therapies.
- Use of drugs
- Hypnosis
- Psychoanalysis
- Free association
- Dream analysis
- Suggestion
- Encouraging change in life style
- Eliminating stressful situation
Dissociative Hysteria
Dissociative Hysteria is a psychiatric disorder causing two or more distinct personalities to co-exist within an individual. Any one of these personalities may be the dominant personality at any particular time. The personalities may be quite different fr…
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