Am J Psychiatry 1985; 142:345-347
Copyright © 1985 by American Psychiatric Association
Hysterical psychosis: an empirical approach
TE Gift, JS Strauss and Y Young
Criteria for hysterical psychosis set forth by Hollender and Hirsch were
systematically applied to a representative sample of 217 patients
hospitalized for the first time in their lives for functional psychiatric
illness. Surprisingly, no patients who met all of these criteria were
found.