Dynamic Considerations of the Hysterical Psychosis
PETER A. MARTIN M.D.1
1 Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Mich.
The author describes the hysterical personality and hysterical psychosis and provides some examples, from the literature and from his practice, of the occurrence of hysterical psychosis in response to disrupted object relations, particularly in the case of disturbed marriages.
