Psychogenic Tremor and Shaking
Psychogenic Tremor and Shaking Joseph Jankovic Madhavi Thomas ABSTRACT The accurate diagnosis of psychogenic movement disorders (PMDs) is based not only on exclusion of other causes, but also on positive…
PSYCHIATRY
General Overview of Psychogenic Movement Disorders: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Prognosis
General Overview of Psychogenic Movement Disorders: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Anthony E. Lang ABSTRACT Epidemiologic studies of “medically unexplained symptoms” are fraught with problems. Despite numerous confounding issues, it is…
The History of Psychogenic Movement Disorders
The History of Psychogenic Movement Disorders Stanley Fahn ABSTRACT Psychogenic movement disorders are part of the spectrum of a host of psychogenic neurologic disorders. Originally referring to these disorders as…
Military and Mass Hysteria
Military and Mass Hysteria Ian P. Palmer ABSTRACT Hysteria and mass hysteria are as old as war itself. Debate about their origins has been informed by conflict through the ages….
Charcot and Psychogenic Movement Disorders
Charcot and Psychogenic Movement Disorders Christopher G. Goetz ABSTRACT In his neurologic unit at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot studied many patients who today would likely…
Freud and Psychogenic Movement Disorders
Freud and Psychogenic Movement Disorders W. Craig Tomlinson ABSTRACT Freud, a neurologist and neuroscientist by training, became interested in hysteria initially as a student of Jean-Martin Charcot in the 1880s….
Therapy and Cure I: Drive and Ego Psychologies
Therapy and Cure I: Drive and Ego Psychologies “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” —from Constitution…
Therapy and Cure II: The Relational Psychologies
Therapy and Cure II: The Relational Psychologies “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” —Oscar Wilde LEARNING OBJECTIVES The reader will be able to: List the therapeutic…
Affect and Psychopathology
Affect and Psychopathology “What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array through the always hostile country!…
Self Psychology
Self Psychology “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.” — William Shakespeare LEARNING OBJECTIVES The reader will be able to: Define self and selfobject from the…
