Conversion hysteria
Subtitle: towards a cognitive neuropsychological account
By: edited by Peter W. Halligan, Anthony S. David
Contributors: Halligan, Peter W; David, Anthony S
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Hove, East Sussex, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Conversion disorder; Hysteria
Other titles: Cognitive neuropsychiatry
Notes: "Special issue of Cognitive neuropsychiatry."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Conversion hysteria: towards a cognitive neuropsychological account / Peter W. Halligan and Anthony S. David; title: Conversion hysteria: history, diagnostic issues and clinical practice / Helen L. Crimlisk and Maria A. Ron; title: Conversion hysteria: is it a viable concept? / Edgar Miller; title: Malingering, hysteria and the factitious disorders / Mark Turner; title: Hysterical paralyses as disorders of action / Sean A. Spence; title: Functional blindness: a construction of cognitive and social influences / Richard A. Bryant and Kevin M. McConkey; title: Hypnosis and conversion hysteria: a unifying model / David A. Oakley; title: Towards a neuropsychiatry of conversive hysteria / Mauricio Sierra and German E. Berrios