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A Family and Marital Study of Hysteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Philip I. Woerner  and
Samuel B. Guze
Philip I. Woerner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Audubon Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Samuel B. Guze
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Audubon Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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This paper reports the results of a psychiatric study of the families and husbands of patients with hysteria. In a series of previous publications designed to clarify the diagnosis of hysteria, it was shown that certain clinical criteria will define a group of patients with a highly uniform clinical course and prognosis (3, 4, 5, 9). It was also suggested that the same clinical picture is seen among first-degree female relatives more frequently than among the general female population, and that alcoholism and sociopathy are seen more frequently among first-degree male relatives than among the general male population (1). We decided to extend the investigation to more cases, and to study the husbands of the index cases as well.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 507 , February 1968 , pp. 161 - 168
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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