Hysteria: Lost In The Jungle Of Diagnostics

Hysteria is widespread. It can infect whole societies, but also individual persons – children and adults – and can bring on exaggerated reactions or even physical illnesses. Although it may manifest itself somatically, it is actually dealing with an unbearable emotional pain that is so well hidden that it can hardly be detected from the outside. This is the reason why hysteria seems so ridiculous, and in turn only increases the suffering. People with hysteria are lost inwardly in their pain and are insufficiently seen by others.

Currently under the influence of DSM and ICD, hysteria as a disorder has disappeared. It was the most widely diagnosed neurosis up to the 1960s. This diagnosis has been lost in the jungle of diagnostics and has changed and morphed into four different diagnoses with limited, compact knowledge and understanding of a very human phenomenon.

This online course will elaborate on the origins of hysteria and will explain its emergence within normal human development. Different forms of hysteria will be introduced and treatment guidelines for dealing with hysterical behavior will be explored. Although there is a focus on the suffering and illness of hysteria, this disorder frequently leaves one feeling helpless and confused, and ultimately can offer clinicians interesting and exciting insights into the human psyche.

If we look phenomenologically at these personality disorders we find a constant structure which is dynamically centered around a typical mode of processing. The theme of the suffering and the lack of self-disclosure constitute the loss of identity, because person is not grounded in their own feelings. The hysteric structure derives from a strong sensation of pain due to a state of alienation and/or inability to face oneself. The pain not being processed and integrated produces an anesthesia, thus forming the central dynamics in the emergence of hysteric personality disorders.

The use of a consistent concept of hysteria is helpful in practice for psychotherapeutic work. It is helpful to know about the repressed pain which leads to a specific sensitiveness for narrowness, to the use of force and loneliness producing in turn defensive reactions of the distancing type, attained by exteriorization, numbness and avoidance of interiority (inner void). The psychodynamic development has an insufficient unfolding of personhood and existentiality. Through this online course, the symptoms of histrionic disorders become more understandable and accessible within the greater (existential) scope of being oneself and being in the world.

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$299 after July 10, 2019.

Mind Body Passport is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. Mind Body Passport maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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