Hysteria can be diagnosed with confidence
In the 1960s Slater reported a high incidence of neurological and
psychiatric disease in patients with hysteria; this has made doctors
wary of diagnosing hysteria. Crimlisk et al (p 582) have reproduced
Slater's work in a group of 73 patients from the same hospital with
unexplained motor symptoms. Six years after initial admission only four
patients had new diagnoses that accounted for their initial symptoms.
Overall psychiatric morbidity was high. These results suggest that
after careful investigation, hysteria can be diagnosed with confidence.
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