Motor symptoms without a discernible organic basis, or "hysteria," still be a treatment challenge. The worst fear of most patients is being told that their symptoms have a psychiatric etiology. These U.K. researchers have used that fear in developing a st...

So, once we speak of the treatment and cure of those patients, we wrongly say we've cured the hysteria; we've cured only the hysterical symptom. What most physicians in their ardor have left untouched and untreated is that the hysterical psyche which gave...