[The differential diagnosis of hysteria in the ravines of contemporary psychiatry]

Abstract

The diagnosis of "hysteria" has recently become part of the history of Psychiatry. Although fully trained dynamic psychiatrists, followers of psychoanalytic theories, still make use of some clinical and theoretical production upon hysteria, for many of the young psychiatrists this term has disappeared from their scope. They only know of dissociative disorders, somatoform disorders and histrionic personality disorders, or they rather distinguish other diagnosis with which hysteria could be mistaken for. Despite the diagnosis of hysteria has been removed from the DSM, the difficulties these patients frequently imposed to physicians still prevail.