Hysterical Psychosis: The Cross-Cultural Evidence

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. 60201

While the term "hysterical psychosis" appears to have been used in the literature on cross-cultural psychopathology partly because of nosological difficulties, the author feels that it may describe a widely distributed type of abnormal behavior. He believes the hysterical psychoses are particularly amenable to interdisciplinary research.

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